Dear adoptive parents!
We are very glad to announce a new service to prepare you better for your first meeting with prospective children. Beginning with January 2009 all the families are highly recommended to visit new Educational Seminars at CHI Moscow office. During these seminars all the most important aspects of the process of adoption will be covered.

Peculiarities of legal adoption rules, possible status and problems of social adaptation of Russian orphans and children left without parental care will be discussed with you by the American Medical Center consultant – Alyona Sinkevich

Health problems of orphans will be covered by Natalia Belova - doctor of the American Medical Center, genetic with 20 years of experience, and familiar with health condition of children, living in the orphanages in Russia. It’s a great opportunity for you of personal communication with a qualified pediatrician, specialist in orphan state of health before getting a referral. You will not only be able to ask as many questions as you can and get all the necessary information about diagnosis of this category of children, but also arrange a phone-conversation with the doctor about your own prospective child.

We are looking forward to see you in Russia and, as usual we’ll be doing everything to help you during this, may be most important trip of your life.

Dear friends!
Despite of all the difficulties we had to face lately, we are very proud that we are still doing our job and helping Russian children and American parents to find each other. It’s hard to express our feelings when we see your happy faces and the children’s smiles, though very shy, but real.

We are proudly announce that since the beginning of 2009 more than 40 children have already found their families with the help of “Children’s Hope International” and more than 40 happy families were born in the world.

Thank you very much, Our Dear adoptive parents, for your kind souls, for your patience and your deep believe in those waiting hearts that are meant to be your dearest in life!

100th adoption this year!

Every family is very special for us, but this year we celebrate the Smiths family with very special attention – they are our 100th adoptive family this year. The Chief of CHI Russia Representative office Ludmila Kochergina gave Dennis & Stephanie CHI Cristal Globe as the reminder for their trip to Russia, but also as the symbol of our gratitude to all adoptive parents from many Russian orphans for giving them hope, home and health!

Sincerely,

CHI Russia team

We know that for every American their family is very important, especially during Thanksgiving holidays! To make this day remarkable for those adoptive parents who stuck in Russia we have a great tradition in CHI Moscow office – to gather all together during and celebrate Thanksgiving with CHI Moscow staff. This year we invited everyone for complimentary city-tour and festive diner at the restaurant with traditional turkey:) We hope, even when you are so far away from your home and family, you can have great time with your CHI Friends!

 

All the best to our adoptive parents from CHI Moscow team!

Dear adoptive parents, friends and colleagues!

Today we are happy to inform you that Izhevsk region is back working fast and well and CHI is expanding its presence in Russia by opening another new region – Yaroslavl! We have great expectations from this region and hope our parents will find it very attractive too.

Just consider: only 3-4 hours drive from Moscow International Airport (175 miles), three easy short trips – first and second trip are only 2-3 days, third one - 5-7 days, one baby-home within the city limit, preliminary information about the referral, active and professional Regional Representative, mild climate and great opportunity to see one of the oldest cities in Russia! Yaroslavl was founded on 1010 and keeps many historical attractions of ancient Russia nowadays. Plus, the city of Burlington, Vermont, US is a sister city for Yaroslavl! To check detailed information, please, visit Regions page.

 Looking forward to see you in Yaroslavl!

 CHI Russia team

Count your chickens when they are hatched!

The fall is almost here and it's the time to count your chickens – the time when they are hatched! We are glad to say despite the delay caused by the re-accreditation we are well on our way this year! By this September we have 79 children adopted from Russia through CHI Russia Program! Just in August we had 11 successful court hearings from our new and old regions, such as Vladivostok, Astrakhan, Tver, Tomsk, Izhevsk, Kemerovo and Kaliningrad! In September we expect 15 families to travel to get their referrals! Kids from Moscow city, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Smolensk, Tver, Tomsk, Astrakhan and Vladivostok await their parents-to-be to come and meet them! We are working on opening new regions to lessen the waiting for our families. Please, stay open to new opportunities, continue your prayers and keep hope!

CHI Russia team
Moscow office
Russia

As most of you are probably aware of, Russia has been engaged in a military conflict with the Republic of Georgia over the last several days resulting in civilian and military casualties.  During this time, we have received a number of emails and telephone calls from our families asking about how this may affect their travel to Russia or the Russia Adoption program in general.  At this time, this crisis does not effect families traveling to Russia nor does it have any impact on the Russia adoption process.  If there are any changes in this regard, we will update you as they occur.

CHI Russia team