Ukraine Adoption

Hello everyone,

It has been great reading the blog and seeing everyone's process moving along nicely.

My wife and I are a couple from Ontario, Canada and we have been working on adopting children from Ukraine for three years. Being from Ontario, we are subject to very strict adoption guidelines. It has been difficult aligning the Ukrainian and Ontario requirements all the way along.

Ontario has approved us to adopt two children provided they are healthy, under the age of six, and siblings. We had our first appointment at the adoption centre in Kiev last Tuesday and were not shown any proposals that met those requirements.

We have requested a second appointment and, right now, our facilitator in Kiev is contacting social workers and orphanage directors all over Ukraine to try and find children that meet the requirements that Ontario has saddled us with.

We are just wondering if any of you that are currently visiting orphanages might ask if they have any children for us. If we could get the names of the children and the name of the orphanage, our facilitator could take it from there. Any help would be most appreciated. Our cell number in Ukraine is:
3 80 98 127 1712. (It's not necessary to dial the 3 if dialing from within Ukraine). Our email address is:
ktoews1@cogeco.ca

Thanks so much.

Karl and Roxolana Toews