Karen's Adoption Links Blog

Here are groups to join based on where you adopted / where you were adopted, most of these groups welcome both Adoptive Parents and Adoptees. These groups are a great place to learn more about a specific orphanage, share photos and connect with people who have traveled to the same places. Click to go to the facebook group.         Arkhangelsk ++ Astrakhan ++ Bryansk ++     Bryansk Zhukovka School Internat  ++ Chita - see Zabaikalsky krai Chuvashia (Cheboksary) ++ and Ethnic Chuvash adoptees Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) ++ Irkutsk ++ Ivanovo ++ Kaliningrad ++ Kaluga ++ Kemerovo ** Kirov ++ Krasnodar ++ Krasnoyarsk ++ Krasnoyarsk 2 ++ Moscow ++ Perm ++ Pskov  ** Rostov-on-Don ++ Samara ++ Saratov  ** Smolensk ++ St Petersburg & Leningrad ++ Tomsk  ** Tula ++ Tver  ** Udmurtia (Izhevsk) ++ Vladimir ++ Volgograd   ++ Voronezh ++ Yaroslavl ++ Zabaikalsky krai (Chita) ++ ++ Adoptive Pare...

Adult Intercountry Adoptees - USDOS wants to hear from you! Attend a virtual town hall meeting and have your voice heard. Event: Town Hall: Adult Adoptee Lived Experience Date: November 13, 2020 Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm EST RSVP: email  Adoption @ state.gov  before November 10, 2020 Response should include include your name, email address, and if willing to share, the country from which you were adopted. Participation details will be sent by email on November 12, in the afternoon, to those who RSVP'd. The Office of Children's Issues, U.S. Department of State, invites interested adult intercountry adoptees to a virtual town hall meeting with Marisa Light, Chief of the Adoption Oversight Division, on Friday, November 13, 2020, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. EST. In adherence with the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation on Intercountry Adoption, the Department believes that children "should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love an...