Gods Littlest Angels Mediator in Haiti writes

Haitian Mediator of Intercountry Adoption for the Netherlands, Gods Littlest Angels, writes at her Blog:

16 January 2010 8:30 PM

Today has brought less phone calls which I have been very thankful for! Thankfully, all of the stress we are under makes me not hungry! A good side effect of stress, I guess! Of course, what do they say? A person under a lot of stress cuts 10 years off their life span! Well, with all of this stress, it will probably cut 20 off mine!!! LOL

I have very good news! We sent 5 children to their "forever" families tonight! The children are going to Brussels, Belgium and will meet their Dutch parents there. All but one of the children had their passports and visa approvals. The one that did not had the Dutch ministry approval to come. Her parents were here and had arrived on the day of the earthquake. They did not want to leave their daughter and the Dutch Government allowed them to leave with her with a judge's approval and all of her completed paperwork! Our other families that left on the same plane had to leave their children behind. They said that it was so difficult knowing what was going on and the shortages that we were having. They knew they would have to leave them and were okay with that under "normal" circumstances! But today...with the earth shaking every few minutes and the destructions just a few miles down the road...was almost impossible for them!

Our families in the USA, Canada, France, Luxembourg and The Netherlands have all worked hard to get their governments to allow all children reliniquished by their parents and proposed to adoptive families to be united with these families under humanitarian reasons. This MUST happen. I fear for the children if it does not!

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