Move Abandoned Children into Adoption in India

Being associated with CSA adoption Project I keep visiting Adoption agencies from Rural area in the month of May I paid visit to adoption agency from Jalana (a district in Maharashtra India). I was sitting in the office the office and having word with the trustees of this home regarding various other issues to identify their need where CSA can support them and upgrade the home for children’s betterment.
I could sense that some tiny baby is peeping from the door and hiding when I was turning my attention towards the door. I finished the discussion and then asked the trustee who is the one who is peeping out from the door? And I got to know about the story of those two eyes waiting for his mom…… 2 yrs old Nitin (name changed) was bought to the adoption agency by police he was found near the garden crying alone. Since then the police inquired him about his name, parents name but he didn’t utter a single word. Social worker from the adoption home asked him using different methods but Nitin was speechless. The only thing the social worker could get was that he was very attached to his mom.
Adoption agency made all the effort to find Nitin’s parent but all in vain. Here Nitin was examined by the doctors and could not come out with any deformity for his ability to speak. Six months passed but Nitin never uttered a single word. Nitin was silently watching that the set of parents are coming and picking up the younger kids and taking them home. Every time there were parents /visitors Nitin used to get more excited he used to peep out from the door to watch whether there is somebody for him. Nitin was not selected by any of the parents because he never spoke a single word. I met him and felt that I should try my level best to find parents for him. I came back to Pune and got busy with my routine work but could not forget those eyes which said so much. We CSA team made all the efforts to search parents for him, putting his details on our website, talking and appealing parents to consider Nitin. Finally a lady pilot in well-known air force in India, who was willing to be a single mom visited our website and gave me a call. I immediately told her about the availability of Nitin. She showed her willingness and completed the formalities to take Nitin under foster care. She decided to get the speech therapist’s consultancy for Nitin and fix his deformity. Nitin was very happy to see his Mom in the first visit itself. Joy was pouring out of his eyes, he kept holding her hands was not ready to leave her. No speech was required for both of them.
Last week when I called Nitin’s Mom she told me that the speech therapist says Nitin doesn’t require any speech treatment and he has started talking. He loves being in company with his cousin and neighborhood friends but more than that he loves his MOM.

Being a parent has changed our lives in more ways than one. Our little bundle of joy, our baby daughter has lit up our life ever since she became part of it on that memorable day

 It was around the middle of 2012. in those days I was based out of Pune . One fine day, while at work, I was casually chatting to a colleague of mine, who mentioned in passing that one of her two daughter was adopted. That caught my attention, as we had also been planning to adopt a daughter for some time. Unfortunately for us, the adoption agencies we had contacted in and around Kolkata (my hometown) had informed us that we would have to wait for at least a couple of years.

 I asked my colleague some further details. She was most helpful. She provided me the contact details of CSA & gave me Lucy's contact number, so that I could speak to her. We were very excited thinking of the prospect of becoming parents to a lovely little baby. At the same time, we had a lot of concerns & queries about the whole process of adoption, what were the different steps involved and so on.

 As it turned out, we need not have worried at all. Lucy put me in touch with couple of agencies with whom I could liaise, and take things forward. The paperwork is very detailed so that there are no difficulties later on. We finshed the paperwork, and soon after that an officer from the agency came & visited our home at Kolkata. Within a few weeks of that we came to Latur & visited the agency.

 Finally we saw our baby. It was the most wonderful thing possible when we held her in our arms for the first time. It took a couple of days more to finish legal formalities, but thereafter we brought her home for foster care. From that day on, she was our daughter (we did have to return twice in the next three months though for legal formalities.

 Like I have mentioned before, adopting a baby was the best decision we could have taken. Our daughter has changed our lives in more ways than we could have imagined. She is the light of our lives, we cannot imagine a day without her.