Author: New Beginnings
-
Korean Adoption Story – Meeting Our Son For The First Time During Covid-19 Crisis
Traveling during the Covid-19 crisis in Korea, a New Beginnings family recently came home with their child. They were kind enough to share these videos of their first and second trips in Korea. Their story is heartwarming and compassionate. It was very realistic about the initial few days of transition after custody. We really enjoyed…
-
COVID-19 Prevention Fundraiser for Morocco
Morocco has closed all travel indefinitely and is enforcing strict quarantine rules. The restrictions prevent staff from traveling to and from their homes. A few caregivers and support staff now live in the orphanage away from their own families.
-
COVID-19 Prevention Fundraiser for Korea
South Korean government raised COVID-19 alert to its ‘highest’ level. Eastern Social Welfare Society is not receiving governmental support to fight the virus and is in urgent need of our support in keeping children in their care safe and healthy.
-
Korean Language and Culture Program 2020
Canceled New Beginning is excited to introduce this year’s 2020 Korean Language and Culture Program sponsored by Eastern Social Welfare Society. ESWS offers the program of assist adoptees to learn the Korean language and exposure to Korean culture. The program is a Scholarship Program [link Korean Overview}. All applicants will live in the dormitory at…
-
Notice to Adoptive Families Regarding COVID-19
We hope that everyone is safe and healthy. As you are all aware by now, last week, the World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of the COVID-19 viral infection a pandemic. With infections rapidly spreading to countries worldwide and governments imposing travel restrictions. Many prospective adoptive families will find themselves needing to make adjustments…
-
Chinese Adoption Research Project
My name is Ellie Logan, and I am a student at Wake Forest. I am currently completing my honors thesis in Anthropology, and I am focusing on family narratives and kinship surrounding Chinese transnational adoption. My sister is a Chinese adoptee. In growing up, her story became our story and how we identified our family.…
-
New Beginnings 2019 Program Report
New Beginnings’ mission is to find permanent, loving homes for orphaned and displaced children by providing quality and compassionate social services through the adoption process and after the child is placed. Here is our 2019 New Beginnings Program Report.
-
Make New Beginnings Part of This Year’s Giving Plan.
Support Our Mission Our mission is to find orphaned and displaced children permanent loving homes by providing quality and compassionate social services through the adoption process and after the child is placed. New Beginnings was founded in 1985. Our first children placed are now adults, many with families of their own. Fulfilling our mission…
-
Easing The Adoption Transition: Korean Food
Considering the timing, environment, and practices around feeding and types of food your child may have experienced in his foster family, the following are suggestions on how to bring some of those familiar tastes to your mealtimes at home, and create opportunities for attachment with your new child using food.
-
Tech Tips for International Adoption Travelers
As a prospective adoptive parent, eventually, the time comes to travel abroad to meet your child. This is a wonderful and important time, and it can bring with it a whole range of experiences and emotions – hopes and joys, fears, and anxieties. Being prepared is essential, and in the modern era that means more…