- Children at Casa Quivira receive loving, private foster care.
- They receive excellent daily medical attention during the adoption process.
- Normal travel time to Guatemala for completion of the adoption procedure is 3-4 days.
- Individuals, as well as families, are eligible for international adoption.
- There are no age minimum or maximum limits for adoptive parents.
- Most adoptions through Casa Quivira are completed in 8-10 months from the time that referral of a child is accepted.
August 30, 2007
One week after the children in the care of Casa Quivira were ordered transferred the whereabouts and wellbeing of all forty-two (42) children continues to be unknown. Read Press Release
August 27, 2007
The whereabouts and wellbeing of the remaining forty-two (42) children from Casa Quivira which were under the intervention by the President's Office for Social Welfare (Secretaria de Bienestar Social de la Presidencia, SBSP) continues to be unknown. Read Press Release
August 25, 2007
Two US Families Granted Custody of Their Casa Quivira Children Read Press Release
August 24, 2007
All 35 Children in Casa Quivira under the Intervention of the Guatemalan President's Office for Social Welfare (Secretaria de Bienstar Social de la Presidencia, SBSP), have been removed from the Casa Quivira Home. Whereabouts and Wellbeing of Nine (9) Children earlier Removed from Casa Quivira by the SBSP continues to be unknown. Read Press Release
August 23, 2007
Guatemalan National Police Attempt Illegal Raid of Offices of Casas Quivira in Antigua, Guatemala. Whereabouts and Wellbeing of Nine (9) Children Removed from Casa Quivira by the Secretaria de Bienestar Social de la Presidencia (SBSP) continues to be unknown. Read Press Release
Rams Player Adopts Kids From Guatemala
September 1, 2007(KTVI - myFOXstl.com) -- While many know him as a center for the St. Louis Rams, two little girls from Guatemala know Andy McCollum as "Daddy". He adopted the children from an adoption home that is now the target of a government investigation, and McCollum doesn't get why. Read full story - Watch the videoclip
Area couple in dismay as hopes of adopting child put on hold
August 31, 2007NASHPORT - A local couple is in dismay as they frantically search for answers as to where the Guatemalan baby boy they were hoping to adopt has been taken and if they will ever even be able to bring him home. Read full story
Child to be adopted locally missing after raid
August 25, 2007DENVER - Russell Johnston was scheduled to bring home a young boy from an adoption home in Guatemala that was raided by military police. Read full story
U.S. adoptive parents are worried about babies taken from Guatemalan adoption home - International Herald Tribune
August 24, 2007GUATEMALA CITY: Would-be adoptive U.S. parents were worried Friday about the well-being of 44 children that were moved to secret locations by a judge's order while their adoption home is under investigation. Read full story
Guatemala reforms leave adoptions up in air - Chicago Tribune
August 24, 2007Ann and David Roth expected the two babies they were adopting from Guatemala to return home with them within a matter of days... Read full story
Guatemalan Government Raids Adoption Center - My Fox St.Louis
August 23, 2007Precious babies in a Guatemalan adoption home are now being called political pawns. The government raided the home, took dozens of the nearly-adopted babies into custody, and will not let them leave. Now families across the Midwest worry they might never get a chance to give a child a chance at an American life. Read full story
'Babies at risk' in Guatemala row - BBC News
August 17, 2007The owner of a children's home raided by the Guatemalan authorities has warned that the infants' health is deteriorating while the row continues. Read full story