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
Star Online Report
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.