Category: search and reunion
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Big Issue: Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their families before it’s too late
By Isabella Mcrae Link to story. Marie Maubouche has always felt a close connection to her Vietnamese roots, and she wants to learn more. Image: Supplied Marie Maubouche was born in Saigon in October 1971 and was left on the steps of an orphanage when she was two days old. It was during the Vietnam…
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Havana Times: El Salvador children demand the right to know their origins after separation from war
By Edgardo Ayaya Link to story After a DNA test confirmed the family connection, New York resident Sarah Kanfer traveled to El Salvador in November 2024 to reunite with her mother, Eusebia Portillo. The reunion is one of several cases in which children were separated from their parents during the Salvadoran civil war and fraudulently…
Transnational /Transcultural Adoption Project 