US allows entry for thousands of Haitian orphans The US move does not open the country's doors to all Haitian orphans.Rather it grants case-by-case humanitarian entry to those "legally confirmed as orphans eligible for intercountry adoption by the government of Haiti and are being adopted by US citizens ... (and) children who have been previously identified by an adoption service provider or facilitator as eligible for intercountry adoption and have been matched to US citizen prospective adoptive parents."That means that US parents adopting children from Haiti will not have to wait for final paperwork or passports from the Haitian government, which is struggling to cope with a humanitarian disaster after a 7.0-strength quake... Rescue misson bringing Haitian orphans to Pittsburgh A rescue mission to bring as many as 61 orphans back from Haiti ran into a snag late last night, ... Haitian Orphans Have Hope Thanks To Humanitarian Parole Bellevue, NE: Aid is pouring into Haiti but the challenge is getting it to the thousands of starving people, including thousands of orphans. ... Haitian orphans could be airlifted to Miami for resettlement Thousands of orphans and other Haitian children displaced by the earthquake may be airlifted to Florida in a humanitarian project that has roots in a similar mass exodus from Cuba half a century ago. Operation Pierre Pan would be a near repeat of Operación Pedro Pan, which saw 14,048 unaccompanied Cuban children start new lives in the US in the early 1960s.Just like that two-year programme, which was designed to remove children from the control of Fidel Castro's government, the new arrivals would live in temporary shelters in south Florida until foster homes are found, or they are reunited with family members.The plan, the brainchild of the Catholic archdiocese of Miami, which... Quake Interrupts Bay County Family-s Adoption of Haitian Orphans They are in the process of adopting twins from an orphanage in Port au Prince. It's been three years and one day since the Cassel family picked out their ... Plane with 53 Haitian orphans on way back to Pa. A charity relief mission that included Gov. Ed Rendell was carrying dozens of young children from an orphanage in earthquake-ravaged Haiti to the United States, where medical attention and, in some cases, adoptive families were waiting, Rendell's spokesman said. The C-17 cargo plane was expected to land at Pittsburgh International Airport early Tuesday morning, said the spokesman, Gary Tuma, who was at the airport. Dan Laurent, a spokesman for the West Penn Allegheny Health System, said the plane, filled with relief supplies from the Brother's Brother Foundation, left Pittsburgh late Monday morning. The plane was supposed to bring back or... Leaders defend the pace of aid to quake zone Meanwhile, in a late development on Monday, the U.S. government announced it was granting humanitarian parole to hundreds of Haitian orphans who were waiting to be adopted by Americans before the earthquake. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano left the door open for other needy orphans to be considered for the humanitarian parole. The Catholic Church in Miami has announced plans to launch a second Operation Pedro Pan, this time to house in South Florida Haitian children at risk.FOOD PROGRAM Food and fresh water did reach more Port-au-Prince residents on Monday, the United Nations said. The U.N.'s World Food Program re... Bedford County church mourns loss of three Haitian orphans Smith Mountain Lake's Resurrection Catholic Church is mourning the loss of at least three children at an orphanage it sponsors in Haiti. ... 3 Haitian Orphans To Be Adopted By Coloradans DENVER -- Three children airlifted out of Haiti Sunday will be adopted by families in Colorado. The US Air Force picked up six children from an orphanage in ...

Haitian orphans find new homes in Kansas HESSTON, Kansas - It's left tens of thousands of lives in ruin, but for 7 Haitian orphans, the devastating earthquake has led to new lives here in Kansas . ...