CHINESE ADOPTEE GATHERING

Chinese Adult Adoptee Worldwide Reunion

We are a group of adult Hong Kong and Chinese adoptees and orphans here to support and to enjoy getting to know each other from the same homeland, to build ties with those who stayed home, and to keep ties with one another as older mentors for younger Chinese adoptees worldwide (see Chinese Adoptee Links). In future years, we hope other adult Chinese adoptees and orphans will join us to celebrate their future journeys home or to learn more about their experiences in their countries in the Pacific Rim/Southeast Asia.

We are planning our first adoptee reunion in Hong Kong this year, with the sole goal of bringing our sisters and brothers together in the place of our birth so that we can, as a group, share stories, bond, support, experience our birth city and cultures. As a Hong Kong Planning Committee, we have been very successful in linking with the local Hong Kong communities, for better cultural understandings, insight into our pasts and just a wonderful way to make friends with others with similiar backgrounds.

Our reunion dates and venue is set (with extra rooms to enable those who want their own mini-reunion because you’re from the same orphanage/sisterhood or even a member of the same global adoptee group). While we are starting to surge forward with the planning, adoptees from around the globe are linking with each other, organising themselves in their local community/country to see what we can do in spreading the word in order to help create what we believe would be an amazing experience. If you can help us spread the word through distributing our poster, we welcome your support.

Please feel free to explore the site and see how the reunion is developing, especially in Reunion Info Page. Even if you don’t think you will be able to join this reunion this year, we would still love to hear from you. Consider being part of our virtual Planning Committee, and maybe you can host a future gathering in your home country in the future?

First Chinese Adult Adoptee Worldwide Reunion 2010, Hong Kong

Theme: Journey Through Adoption

Tuesday, September 28 to Saturday, October 2, 2010

TO REGISTER

1. R.S.V.P. to attend in Facebook.

2. Download a Registration Form from the bottom of Reunion Info page, fully complete it and submit it to MailGuard('info','caawr.com') info@caawr.com by May 31 2010.

3. Join our CAAWR Facebook page for updates and keep in touch with each other for the future.