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«It pulled away the ground under my feet»

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06:56 min, from Regional Journal Ostschweiz of 30.01.2019.

She is one of about 700: The 37-year-old St. Gallen Tamara Kramer was most likely illegally adopted from Sri Lanka in Switzerland like hundreds of other children in the 1980s. These "Sri Lanka adoptions" have been a big topic in the media over the last few days and weeks - not least because the canton of St. Gallen published a report in a new window at the beginning of this week .

There will be easier access to their files prior to adoption and the organization of meetings with their former caregivers in orphanages, according to Ni Chunxia, ??deputy director of the Department of Social Affairs of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

China will facilitate children adopted abroad search biological family

New regulation issued by the Government of China came into effect this month and contemplates actions such as coverage of the expenses of the visits of the returnees. (Photo: EFE)

26.01.2019 / 04:02 am

Shanghai. The Chinese government said it will make "a greater effort" to help children born in China and adopted by foreign families to explore their roots and find their biological parents, the government newspaper China Daily reported today.

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Sajeda returns home after 40- yr from Netherlands

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Arshad Ahmed Asad, Gafargaon, Mymensingh :

A couple left their two female children in the waiting train at Gafargaon Railway Station 40 years ago for not giving them food and clothing . After that two sisters were lost . The names of the ill-fated two sisters are Sajeda and Mallika.

After 40 years ,little daughter Sajeda has come back her parent's home. She has got her own relatives. Only that parents were not alive. The parents who left their children in the train was in hardship. As ill luck would have it , they were taken shelter at Mother shelter, from there the two children were taken shelter at the house of two couples in Netherlands.

Adopted Bibi Hasenaar: 'My life is broken for the money'

'I think I can demand a reimbursement', says the adopted Bibi Hasenaar in response to the investigation that Minister Dekker is adopting for adoption. "It was vulgar trafficking."

"I think I am now 46 years old," says Bibi Hasenaar. The independent entrepreneur from Muiderberg does not know exactly what it is. As a four-and-a-half-year-old, the Bangladeshi-born girl was adopted, later her files were no longer there. "I celebrate my birthday on April 1, and then I feel really happy."

"I can still laugh," says Hasenaar at the end of the conversation, which is about her adoption. How the young Bibi and her brother are first disassembled in the Netherlands - against the rules - and how after three days of continuous crying they are replaced in the adoptive family of her brother. That was terrible, she says. "I did not feel wanted anywhere in my youth. My mother in Bangladesh did not want me anymore, I thought, and in that new family I was not wanted as an extra child. "The contact with her adoptive parents was bad from the start, she says. "In retrospect, I'm sure that I was brought up in Bangladesh with much more love."

On Thursday, Minister Dekker announced that investigations into malpractice in intercountry adoption, including those from Bangladesh. Hasenaar finds the reaction from The Hague very late. "Adopted people have been looking for answers for decades." A laugh sounds. "Actually, I have never been that person myself. I have not let myself get carried away by my past, I have tried to make something of my life here. "

1,300 children died in adoption homes in 5 years

NEW DELHI: The government informed Parliament on Friday that a total number of 1,265 children have been reported to have died in the specialised

adoption agencies across states between April 2014 to January 31, 2019. These institutions cater to children in the age group of 0-6 years.

2/9/2019 1,300 children died in adoption homes in 5 years | India News - Times of India

Women and child development minister of state Virendra Kumar in a reply to a written question in Lok Sabha on Friday shared that the highest number of

41 years after separation from family, a Danish citizen of Bangladesh origin returns to Pabna to look for his loved ones.

Mentoo, who was formerly known as Mintoo, reached into his pocket and drew out a sepia-toned photograph. “I have a childhood photograph and can recall the name of Nagarbari ghat in Pabna's Bera upazila. Nothing else,” he said in crisp English.

Mentoo is a man on a mission.

He has returned to his birthplace after 41 years of separation, the memory of which remains foggy in his head. All that remains from his past is the photograph depicting a smiling Mentoo surrounded by what appears to be his friend.

Now he wishes to discover his roots. “I have shown the photograph to many people,” Mentoo Carsten Sonnich, a Danish citizen of Bangadeshi origin told The Daily Star, adding that as of yet no one had been able to help him find out where he actually came from.

Dutch woman on quest for family in Bangladesh

A school teacher by profession, Sultana Ven Der Lest with her husband and their 10-year-old son arrived in Bangladesh on February 1, 2016 in search of her biological family. Photo: Courtesy

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Poverty stricken Rahima Khatun in 1979 was compelled to give up her four-year-old granddaughter Sultana for adoption to a Dutch non-government organisation and was subsequently adopted by a Dutch couple in the Netherlands.

A school teacher by profession, Sultana Ven Der Lest, with her husband Jorif Jacob, a designer, along with their 10-year-old son, Noah Abed Nabila Jacob, arrived in Bangladesh on February 1, 37 years later in search of her biological family.

Caroline was born in Bangladesh: Maybe my parents didn't want to adopt me at all

Caroline Amena Lauritsen

· Trained lawyer, lives in Odense and is 45 years old. Born in Bangladesh in 1973, but came to Denmark in 1975 through the adoptive agency Terre Des Hommes, who in 1999 stopped communicating adoptions. In her adoption papers, she says she is a founding child, but in the autumn of last year she was presented with new information that may indicate that her biological parents may have been deprived of her.

Caroline Amena Lauritsen, according to her adoption paper, is a founding child, but has recently found signs that she may have been adopted to the will of her parents. The case is the latest in a number of adoptions that have proved not to be after the book. The issues raise major existential issues among the adult adoptive children

A state of shock, but also curiosity. This is how Caroline Amena Lauritsen describes the feeling she got in the body when she found out in the autumn of 2017 that she might not, as hitherto, be a so-called heat child - a child whose biological parents are unknown - but can instead be included in an illegal adoption.

Abida Rahman Chowdhury

It was just a few years after the Liberation War in 1971. Caroline Amena Lauritsen was a child then. She does not remember how old she was back then, but her adoption papers say she was three years old.

With a group of children, all from the same “baby home” as hers, Caroline flew to Denmark on November 13, 1975. The only memories she has from her life back in Bangladesh are a few words—words that she finds hard to pronounce now.

“Amena no ghum” and “paani” are the only words that she remembers, she tells me, as we settle down for a chat in a cosy apartment in Dhaka and I ask her what she remembers of her life in Bangladesh, decades back. She also has one lasting memory of her best friend “Moti”.

“The first thing I named when I arrived at my parent's house in Denmark was their cat. I called it Pilai.”