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Kyrgyzstan: Adoption

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 @ 10:54 UTC

by Ben Paarmann

Countries:: Kyrgyzstan
Topics:: Indigenous

Kyrgyz blogger Mirsulzhan Namazaliev received an email of a woman who recently adopted a baby from the mountaineous Central Asian nation. She asks about cultural traditions and why the mother gave up her little baby daughter.

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“Kyrgyzstan: Adoption”

July 15th, 2008 at 20:28 pm
Nicole:
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We are interested in adopting from Kyrgyzstan and would love to hear more about how the blogger did so, agency used, timeframe.

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