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Bulgaria's orphans are set to be helped by one of the most successful adoption agencies in the world. Photo by undp.bg
The US adoption agency, The Gladney Center for Adoption, has opened an inter-country adoption program in Bulgaria.
The Gladney Center is one of the oldest and largest maternity homes and adoption agencies in the United States.
The Fort Worth-based nonprofit organization has partnered with an accredited Bulgarian agency with the aim of to helping place an estimated 8 700 orphans from Bulgaria into permanent homes.
According to Marshall Williams, senior vice president of international adoption for The Gladney Center, Bulgaria has more than 200 orphanages.
"It is Gladney's mission to help these beautiful children find forever homes in the United States," Williams said. "Helping one child at a time find their forever family is what we do."
Currently, six families are enrolled in the Bulgaria program and will be ready to travel to the country in a few months.
Founded more than a century ago, The Gladney Center has placed more than 27 000 children for adoption and helped more than 37 000 women experiencing crisis pregnancies.
"Bulgaria has reduced the number of children in institutions by 90 percent, and we plan to permanently close all homes for children with disabilities and for children from 4 to 7 years old," said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zahari
President Rosen Plevneliev has assured that Bulgaria will continue to support the UNICEF mission aimed at deinstitutionalization in the child care system.
Britain's Prince Edward and his wife Sophie are arriving in Bulgaria on Sunday, June 23, British Ambassador in Sofia, Jonathan Allen, confirmed.
A Bulgarian district court has revoked a scandalous sentence on a local journalist for publishing a story about abuse in a local orphanage.
The Regional Court in Bulgaria's Danube city of Ruse has sentenced Asya Pencheva, a journalist from a local newspaper, for publishing a story about abuse in a local orphanage.
Almost all children accommodated in orphanages in Bulgaria have parents, according to data of the National Statistics Institute, NSI, released Friday.
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