Thursday, January 21, 2010

The rumor is dispelled



All adoptive parents in Canada will know what I am saying. Here is proof of just how compassionate and proactive the Dutch government has been in getting their children home. I can't watch this without bawling. It really shows the care and concern and speed in getting their children home. Yet it also shows the finality of their journey. My heart just broke as one soldier turned around with his little child and helped him wave "goodbye" to his birth country. Truly bittersweet.

I love the Netherlands!!!!!

This is the translation from YouTube from an online translation site:

A plane with 92 adopted children from Haiti and their supervisors this afternoon landed at Eindhoven Airport. There are Dutch children transferred to their adoptive parents. The children were yesterday by Dutch marines from their orphanage accompanied to the airport of Port-au-Prince, where they flew to the Netherlands via Curacao.

The aircraft departed from Arke Fly on Monday, at the initiative of the Dutch Association World Adoption Foundation and Children, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from Schiphol to the disaster area. Besides relief on that flight was also a support team of experts on board. The primary purpose of this trip was as soon as possible to safety of the Haitian children who are in the adoption process for Dutch ancestors were. Haiti also flew 14 kids for adoption in Luxembourg qualify.

Eindhoven Airport last Sunday was already a suitable place for children and adoptive parents to have time to know each other. The lobby, which normally military personnel arriving and departing, offers enough room to another, hidden from the outside world in the embrace. Sunday came the first Dutch evacuees and adoptive children from the earthquake-affected area.

Defense Personnel normally work as baggage carried, today took the children from the plane and brought them to the terminal. The airbase was also well prepared for the landing of the aircraft. Besides the usual military deployment such as traffic, fire, security and medical personnel, extra effort was made to convert a quiet arrival of the children possible.

3 comments:

Rebekah Hubley said...

were any of those kiddos from GLA?

yvonne said...

Yes, 23 came from GLA
yvonne

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