AdoptCLOUD

Welcome to the Meet the cloud post series - a collection of posts featuring the Italian partners’ voice : constitution, members, goals, collaborations and successful activities. Today we present Italian adoption cloudpartner - F.A. e G.N. The Association F.A. e G.N. stands for Figli Adottivi e Genitori Naturali (Adoptive Children and Natural Parents) it is the first Association in Italy of adult adopted, founded by Luisa Di Fiore, John Pierre Campitelli, and Monica Rossi . It is based in Rome but is located throughout the country and is in contact with similar associations in other parts of the world (Greece / France / United States / Holland / Spain / South Korea and India). Born as a natural evolution of the virtual community dedicated to this theme, FAeGN was founded in June 2000. Today, the Association can count over 3,000 associates and is engaged to: - Offer assistance , moral and informational help, to birth parents whose child has been taken away and given up for adoption....

  WE MADE IT! After a long break - here I present you the CLOUD! Represented below, you can see the partners of the Adoption Cloud Project , for those who don't know there's a social cloud growing up in Italy with very much appreciated international partners. In the following months, I will focus the blog posts on presenting our Italian members - associations and their advocates, personalities and projects. Please welcome the Meet the CLoud post series - a collection of articles featuring the Italian partners’ voice: you will read about their constitution, stories, goals, collaborations and successful activities. Get ready, check out the cloud below. Adoption Cloud's Partners Arp / Speaks AtCLoud  -  Alessia Petrolito  / More on  ResearchGate © AdoptCloud 2020. Creative Commons  (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License)

If you haven't heard about it yet, you should definitely check out the fantastic project  Ethical Storytelling ? Angela Tucker ( The Adopted Life Blog ) was one of the first adoptees to sign for it! Ethical Storytelling   is a community of non-profit and practitioners & storytellers learning how to integrate a new standard of storytelling.  To know more about this project and to learn how to tell stories with an ethic  visit the  website . As adoptees, we can benefit from this kind of approach, our stories deserve to be  truthfully and dignifiedly  told - spread the word. SIGN THE PLEDGE (available in  Ita  and  Eng ) Arp / Speaks AtCLoud   -  Alessia Petrolito

Rainbow, Coalition, Mushroom, Cloud ( https://bit.ly/3egywAl ) So proud to be featured in this massive outstanding project "Adoptee Voices / Perspective Papers" compiled by Lynnelle Long, Founder of InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV) , and for which so many adoptees, professionals and activists, have joined voices and forces. I was asked to respond to  "Illicit Adoption Responses from Lived Experience" for the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH)  Working Group. In the paper, you will find responses by three other Italian professionals and entrepreneurs - Dr.ssa Margarita S. Assettati and John Pierre Battersby Campitelli and Kim Soo-bok Cimaschi. Past meetings details can be found on the HCCH's Website . Thank you, Lynelle and ICAV, for this opportunity. Arp / Speaks AtCLoud  -  Alessia Petrolito

What is diversity? What is inclusion? Should not be pluralism the next step...? When one cannot team up at least should cooperate! Instead of been let opinions separate us, let's try to 'win' by building a collective good - Let's help ourselves and others to create new contents, meanings and collaboration! Try to think about Adoption from the game point of view, the theory - as in and picture - says we have pawns and multiple colours... we are players, active and in control; we can group and divide - but can anybody say there no space for anyone?   Game is about fun cooperation and pluralism ( https://bit.ly/2TGWr4t ) Arp / Speaks AtCLoud  -  Alessia Petrolito  / More on  ResearchGate  

The Adoption Cloud   You may have heard me talking about the Adoption Cloud ... It is a visionary project let me tell you more about it. Project Objective: The Adoption Cloud - Project  is a portion of this blog,  AdoptCloud , where I am going to feature Italian social personalities; adoptees who are working - disseminating communicating - on adoption throughout social media. This project also features well-known Adoptees' International Networks, intending to encourage, and possibly foster interactions with/within the various Italian adoptees' communities and personalities.  Project Goals: 1) To look at adoption on social media and virtual communities formation in Italy.  2) To overcome the language barrier . 3) To form and display a  comprehensive  Italian main-stream  featuring all the active networks and personalities  - cultural disseminators, activists, and service providers . 4) To connect  and foster collaborations wi th other...

Inspire - modified pic from Phxere ( https://bit.ly/2zqDbBk ) "I'd really love to hear from more Italian adoptees, and  I really want to encourage  Italian adoptees to kind of  come-out of the shadow; and to start to think critically about [you know] what's been going-on on a massive sky like. You know, I worked very close with americans adoptees for the past five years; and the reason why I did that was it's because I knew that from a global prespective at top receiving countries there are America (US), Italy and France. If we don't have those three lots of adoptees on a global sky speaking at and being visible... That's where we need to get to in terms of  the short-term five years goal is encoraging more adoptees [...]" The quote was taken from the video interview of Lynelle Long , blogger and critical thinker in intercountry adoption - Founder of InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV) which began in Australia (1998) and now the largest platfor...