One fifth of
all orphans in Kaliningrad are given up for adoption abroad
There are 1
901 children-orphans and children left without parental care
registered in Kaliningrad.
At total of
289 children are in orphanages in Kaliningrad and 1612
orphans and children are left without parental care and are
living with families, which come up to 84.8%: 800 children
are under guardianship; 79 children in foster care; 92
children - in foster care families, 641 children under the
age of 18 living in adoptive families, among them: families
of citizens of Russia – 300, children living abroad - 341.
This year (2008), 55 children are given up for adoption, 43
children are given up for adoption to Russian families,
which represents 78.1% of the total number of adoptions for
this period and 12 children are given up for adoption to
foreign nationals (21.9%).
The Department of Care and Guardianship of Children in
Kaliningrad Committee of Education have given up to care 92
children. Dynamics of the recent years are as follows: 800
children live in custody families, representing 42.1% of the
total number of children left without parental care (2006 -
956 children, 2007 – 886 children).
In Kaliningrad in 2008, 79 children
were
placed with extended family members, or 4.2% of the total
number of children left without parental care (2007 - 69,
2006 - 86 children).
In foster care families lived 92 children (4.9% of the total
number of children left without parental care). During 11
months of 2008, 15 children were sent to the foster care
families. In December 2008 there are documents to be
processed to send another 3 children to the foster care
families.
Also work continues on optimising the network of
institutions for orphans and children left without parental
care. With the development of a system of family foster care
has gradually decreased number of orphan institutions (there
were 6 establishments in 2007, which is now reduced to 4) as
well as falling number of orphans and children left without
parental care in orphanages itself. Over the last 2 years
their number shortened by 109 people.
Source: Amber Region, Kaliningrad Regional Newspaper,
07.01.09
http://kaliningradfirst.ru/?p=16545
Another useful
information on adoption in Russia and Kaliningrad
Foreign Office
Page on Russian Adoption & Documents Required:
Kaliningrad
City Orphanages:
Kaliningrad
Region Orphanages: Bagrationovsk, Gusev, Zelenogradsk,
Pravdinsk, Slavsk, Sovetsk, Chernyakhovsk
Procedure for
adoption of children, who are Russian citizens, by foreign
citizens, stateless persons and Russian citizens residing
outside the Russian Federation, the Internet-project of the
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation,
Department of Youth Policy, Care and Social protection of
children:
Database of children for
adoption from Kaliningrad Region, Ministry of Education and
Science of the Russian Federation:
http://www.usynovite.ru/db/?do_search=1&y=&r%5B%5D=39
State Bodies of the
Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation responsible for
adoption (in Russian)
http://www.usynovite.ru/contacts/?region=16 |
