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Adoption agency voted best in Atlanta in the field of social services for 2012. Sugar Hill, Georgia (PRWEB) January 12, 2012 One World Adoption Services of Sugar Hill, Georgia was voted this year’s honored business and Best of Atlanta for 2012. The honor was showcased in more »

Update on DRC Elections Film Credit: Petna, Yolé!Africa Between scholars, artists, pastors and politicians who actually determines the leading power in the DRC? Pandisha bendera is a powerful reflection on the implications of clashing social factions in the process of more »

By Tina Gallant I understand that adoption is not the main stream way of creating a family so in that aspect, we are different. But lately I have been asking myself, “how different are we?” I mean, I have adoption books more »

by Tina Gallant November is National Adoption Month. So now is a good time to start thinking about your schedule and see if there is anything that you can do next month to celebrate or advocate adoption. Not that we don’t more »

Source: http://www.irs.gov IRS Summertime Tax Tip 2011-10, July 27, 2011  If you are adopting a child in 2011, the Internal Revenue Service encourages you to familiarize yourself with the adoption tax credit. The Affordable Care Act increased the amount of the more »

Congratulations to Jon and Amie, who recently brought their two boys home from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The OWAS Orphanage in Kinshasa, DRC is currently home to nearly 60 children. Many of these children are in the process of more »

Domestic Adoptions can happen quickly, especially if you are open to adopting a biracial and minority newborn. OWAS is actively seeking families for our Domestic Consulting Program. You do not need a home study to begin the process, however if more »

The OWAS Orphanage opened in 2010 and is registered by the Department of Social Affairs and by the Department of Social Security, Humanitarian Action, and National Solidarity. The orphanage cares for approximately 60 abandoned and orphaned children ages 0-11 years more »

Executive Director, Susan Manning was intereviewed by Atlanta’s NBC affiliate 11 Alive News. The story features one of our adoptive families and their children adopted from Congo. The story features one of our adoptive families and their children adopted from more »