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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even if you are right why the hell is your tone so rough? Just cause it is the web you think you all can trample on others?
Result is stuff like Trump or Hillary.

Donating to charity will do nothing and has never. It is a poor excuse like paying Indulgence instead of fixing the influence of the military-industrial complex and the hypocrite western culture.

Now acting politically will do something. Adopting a whole family will as well; adopting orphans from war regions is all right and far from ‚shopping‘ a healty blue eyed white protestant male baby in some adoption center in the States or Europe.

There are many local NGOs doing fantastic work with Rohingya refugees, with little overhead. I've witnessed their work with my own eyes, through my own trips to the camps in the past few months.

Sadly, OP, you cannot adopt a Rohingya orphan for many of the reasons other PPs have outlined. I encourage you to look into other ways you can make a difference like contacting your senators/congressmen and by supporting charities that are working on the ground in Bangladesh. If you have the time and money, you can volunteer in the camps yourself. You can spend time with the children and brighten their day in a meaningful way.

Can you name them? Like OP we are a Bangladeshi-American family but unlike OP we already know adoption is a bad plan/helps facilitate genocide at times like this, so I’d love to write a check.

Sorry just saw this message. I'm the PP. MedGlobal has been providing high quality healthcare for free since Oct '17 (MedGlobal.org). OBAT Helpers (aka Humanitarian Assistance Program) has recently added healthcare but also works in the camps on providing education and safe spaces for children and women.

Anonymous wrote:Every time there is a humanitarian crisis in the news, people pop up wanting to adopt the kids.
Why do you assume those kids don't have families already? Why would youwant to further traumatize a kid in crisis by taking him or her away from everything familiar?
Why not focus on helping entire families stay together, rather than seeing it as a chance to take someone else's kids?

This.

There is so much corruption going on in international orphanages because of this impluse. there are so many children in orphanages who are actually orphans they have families of love them but can't afford to take care of them and there's more funding for orphans than for keeping families together. And some terrible situations you have children being trafficked into adoptions.

The NYTimes had a recent article about the unwanted children of rape being born in the Rohingya refugee camps and how human traffickers have moved in to take advantage of the situation.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Adopt domestically and donate to a refugee organization.

I assume you're the adoptive parent to several domestic-born children? Please do tell.

I am new to this thread, but I have adopted 3 domestic-born children. And am a foster parent. I also have spent 2 months this year working on a medical team in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. I am also interested in finding out if there are legal adoptions taking place of orphaned rohingyan children.

International adoption, unless it's very carefully managed, can quickly become child trafficking. Even in countries that have relative peace and stability, this has been an issue. Introducing international adoption into refugee camps dramatically increases the likelihood that someone will intentionally create orphans or otherwise separate children from parents. It is a very bad idea.

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Anonymous wrote:Adopt domestically and donate to a refugee organization.

I assume you're the adoptive parent to several domestic-born children? Please do tell.

I am new to this thread, but I have adopted 3 domestic-born children. And am a foster parent. I also have spent 2 months this year working on a medical team in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. I am also interested in finding out if there are legal adoptions taking place of orphaned rohingyan children.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if you are right why the hell is your tone so rough? Just cause it is the web you think you all can trample on others?
Result is stuff like Trump or Hillary.

Donating to charity will do nothing and has never. It is a poor excuse like paying Indulgence instead of fixing the influence of the military-industrial complex and the hypocrite western culture.

Now acting politically will do something. Adopting a whole family will as well; adopting orphans from war regions is all right and far from ‚shopping‘ a healty blue eyed white protestant male baby in some adoption center in the States or Europe.

There are many local NGOs doing fantastic work with Rohingya refugees, with little overhead. I've witnessed their work with my own eyes, through my own trips to the camps in the past few months.

Sadly, OP, you cannot adopt a Rohingya orphan for many of the reasons other PPs have outlined. I encourage you to look into other ways you can make a difference like contacting your senators/congressmen and by supporting charities that are working on the ground in Bangladesh. If you have the time and money, you can volunteer in the camps yourself. You can spend time with the children and brighten their day in a meaningful way.

Can you name them? Like OP we are a Bangladeshi-American family but unlike OP we already know adoption is a bad plan/helps facilitate genocide at times like this, so I’d love to write a check.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Children are not collectibles.

+1 I don't think OP means it this way but the wording is like one would use if you wanted to buy a dress or purse.

How?

Anonymous wrote:I work in refugee resettlement and this kind sudden urge to adopt children from the crisis area most recently featured on the news annoys me to no end.

That said, you actually can be a foster parent to a Rohingya (or other) refugee child who has entered the US as an unaccompanied minor through a refugee resettlement program. In some cases, this can lead to adoption.

http://www.usccb.org/about/children-and-migration/unaccompanied-refugee-minor-program/index.cfm

Thats great information.
unaccompanied minors feature in large numbers, organisations are bringing them into the country and then declaring them to be refugees is very easy, but their identity must be proven, which is often difficult or impossible.
If any of you can do this i'm sure its better than leaving them in the desperate camps like those near coxs bazaar.
people in this world are too scared to take action for fear of what might happen to them and their families, so they react negatively, don't bother fighting with them.

there is also this publication from the UN which outlines the rough guideline to avoid abusing our privileges.
http://www.unhcr.org/protection/globalconsult/3bd035d14/unhcr-policy-adoption-refugee-children.html

with respect to muslim children, it's in the quran that adopted children must keep their original name and their ancestral dignity will be intact.
they are not automatically entitled to the adoptive parents property but the parents can leave their possessions to them or anyone else.
in Islam it's believed to be a great thing under god to save an orphan, so mohammed (who was also an orphan ) told people they can't just "own" a child off the street, and when the child grows up he or she is not entitled to
anything, the gift of sanctuary is great enough, they should be grateful for that.

I work in refugee resettlement and this kind sudden urge to adopt children from the crisis area most recently featured on the news annoys me to no end.

That said, you actually can be a foster parent to a Rohingya (or other) refugee child who has entered the US as an unaccompanied minor through a refugee resettlement program. In some cases, this can lead to adoption.

http://www.usccb.org/about/children-and-migration/unaccompanied-refugee-minor-program/index.cfm

Contact World Relief or IRC or one of the other refugee agencies. They have volunteer opportunities where you can work with entire refugee families.

I can't imagine why the OP would want to remove a child from his or her family or why she assumes that Rohingya children don't have families who love them and care for them.

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Anonymous wrote:Children are not collectibles.

Plus, tell us more about why you made this comment on this thread. Back up your statement.

Please add info on what you do to help children in need and why that is better than what OP wants to do.

I'm an adoptive parent. It's very rewarding but much more difficult than you realize. Back off if you can't help OP.

Anonymous wrote:Even if you are right why the hell is your tone so rough? Just cause it is the web you think you all can trample on others?
Result is stuff like Trump or Hillary.

Donating to charity will do nothing and has never. It is a poor excuse like paying Indulgence instead of fixing the influence of the military-industrial complex and the hypocrite western culture.

Now acting politically will do something. Adopting a whole family will as well; adopting orphans from war regions is all right and far from ‚shopping‘ a healty blue eyed white protestant male baby in some adoption center in the States or Europe.

There are many local NGOs doing fantastic work with Rohingya refugees, with little overhead. I've witnessed their work with my own eyes, through my own trips to the camps in the past few months.

Sadly, OP, you cannot adopt a Rohingya orphan for many of the reasons other PPs have outlined. I encourage you to look into other ways you can make a difference like contacting your senators/congressmen and by supporting charities that are working on the ground in Bangladesh. If you have the time and money, you can volunteer in the camps yourself. You can spend time with the children and brighten their day in a meaningful way.

Even if you are right why the hell is your tone so rough? Just cause it is the web you think you all can trample on others?
Result is stuff like Trump or Hillary.

Donating to charity will do nothing and has never. It is a poor excuse like paying Indulgence instead of fixing the influence of the military-industrial complex and the hypocrite western culture.

Now acting politically will do something. Adopting a whole family will as well; adopting orphans from war regions is all right and far from ‚shopping‘ a healty blue eyed white protestant male baby in some adoption center in the States or Europe.

Adoptees need to learn about the culture of origin. It's hard enough teaching a child about cultures more common in the US. There's no Chinese Saturday school equivalent for the Rohingya adoptee.

Adopt*!