Our journey to embracing a special needs son
Written By Inter-Country, Adoptive Parent
The start of our story: A traumatic birth
Our adoption story starts with me and my husband being blessed with a biological,[…]
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16-year-old boy finds his forever family through adoption
Written by Smriti Gupta
“Ma’am, these children will not get adopted”, was the exasperated reply from a child shelter employee as our team conducted a ground survey of child shelters, […]
The Critical Organizational Design ingredient that India’s Child Welfare System misses
Written by Protima Sharma
Radha was found in a railway station when she was three years old. She was hungry, alone and confused. Her family could not be traced, and […]
Homecoming! Every child deserves and needs a family
Written by Meera Marthi
16 years to this day! As our daughter rightly puts it, it was the second birth for all of us as a family! 16 years, our […]
She was forgotten for 10 years! Why India’s child protection system needs an auditing body
(The case discussed below is real but the child’s name has been changed for privacy.) Shailaja was 6 months old when she was found abandoned and brought into an adoption […]
Gradual abandonment: the reality of a child in a shelter
Sita* age 7 lived with her grandmother after her parents died. After her grandmother died, a distant relative “Nalini” approached the CWC to admit her to a CCI. The child […]
Interview with WAIC Caseworker Premalatha: “Let’s keep a smile forever on a child’s face”
Premalatha Gade, age 24, is from Bhadrachalam, Telangana. She completed her schooling in Bhadrachalam, then moved to Hyderabad for her higher studies where she completed a Masters in Social Work […]
From growing up in shelters to WAIC project manager; interview with Sanjay Shetty
Sanjay Shetty is a WAIC field worker from Navi Mumbai. He was himself raised in child shelters as an orphan child. His studies until high school were done through NGOs, […]
Adoption of children above 6 years of age
Many prospective adoptive parents hesitate to adopt children age 6+, who are at higher risk of languishing in shelters for a longer time. But, as many parents who already adopted […]
A day in the training of Anganwadi workers
[WAIC co-founder and director Meera Marthi shares her personal experience training Anganwadi workers in Telangana in early 2021. The training was about #SafeSurrender to help prevent child abandonment and ensure […]