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VN Adoptee – France Developing a new VN Adoptee Resources Web Read more of Emmanuelle’s adoption story & reunion on Emmanuelle Babey’s Reflections page.   Hello, My name is Emmanuelle and I was adopted at the age of 3 years old by a French family, on December 22nd 1972. I was born Le Thi My Hoàng and I grew up at [...]

VN Adoptee – UKFounder of Vietnam Volunteer Network (VVN) VVN Website

(Non-Adoptee AVI Advisory Committee Member) PhD, Sociology & Editorial & Founding Team Member of Conducive Magazine and Imagined E-Journal Conducive Website   Natalie Cherot earned her PhD in sociology and has done extensive research on international adoption, Asian American studies, mixed-race and global economy. She is preparing her manuscript, Vietnamese Adoptee Narratives of Saving, Trafficking and [...]

  VN/Hong Kong Adoptee – UKVisual ArtistCreator & illustrator of Adopted the Comic, CAAWR Adoptee Committee Member & Freelance Artist AVI 35th Reflections / Adopted the Comic Website / CAAWR Website / Art Portfolio Website   My birthmother was a Vietnamese refugee that fled Vietnam to Hong Kong where I was conceived and born in 1982. I grow up in Hong Kong until I [...]

VN Adoptee (Operation Babylift) - AustraliaCo-Founder, International Adoptee Community (IAC) GroupAdoptee National Representative 2011 for NICAAGFormer Adoption Officer with Adoption Services Queensland – AustraliaTouring Transcultural Adoptee Films (TTAF) Initiative Committee (Brisbane) AVI Bio / Jen’s Story (Youtube) / AVI 35th Reflections / TTAF (Brisbane)   Jen Fitzpatrick – As the Adoptee Representative for the National Intercountry Adoption Advisory Group, Jen has trained [...]

VN Adoptee – Australian Operation Babylift. South Australian Contact & Admin Team Member for AVI   My name is Ty Gaston (Viet name – Phan Van Tran). My friends call me “Phoon” as in Ty-phoon (long story!) :) I was born in Ha Noi, Vietnam in 1974 and was part of the second babylift flight to Australia, [...]

VN Adoptee – USAFounder/Director of Operation Reunite. AVI 35th Reflections / AVI Reunited / Operation Reunite Website

Teacher & Writer - Orange County, California, USACommittee Member of Operation Reunite Return to Vietnam 2010 Trip Vietnamese Adoptees Blog   Tricia Houston, Orange County, California – Teacher and writer. Tricia was born in October 1974 in or around Saigon, Viet Nam. She was in two locations according to her paperwork from Viet Nam. First she spent some [...]

Archive – Simon has retired to concentrate on new projects and remains in contact. Lots of admiration and warmth for this amazing person. VN Adoptee - Australia AVI 35th Reflections /   Simon Keogh came to Melbourne, Australia in 1973. His first three months was spent at the Providence Orphanage in Can Tho.  Simon was both a [...]

VN Adoptee – USA Photographer & Community Activist - USA Committee Member of Operation Reunite & Photographer of  Portraits of Vietnamese Adoptees series Portrait Series Website / Anh Ðào website Born outside Sài Gòn, Việt Nam, Anh Ðào Kolbe came to the United States via New York City in 1972. She left two years later and grew up [...]

VN Adoptee – GermanyAVI Admin Team Member AVI 35th Reflections   I am a Vietnamese adoptee born in 1972 in Saigon, and initially placed to Pierre Olivier’s orphanage.  Shortly afterwards, I was transferred to ToAm orphanage, also in SaiGon. I arrived in Germany in January 1973. My German mother was involved in Terre des Hommes, where she [...]

VN Adoptee – Sydney, NSW Australia Analee is a Vietnamese-born adoptee who was raised as part of a loving anglo-saxon family in Melbourne, but now resides in Sydney’s northern beaches. She is a wife and mother to one, and is very passionate about ensuring adoptees, adoptive parents and birth parents are well-supported in their adoption-related journeys. Analee can be contacted [...]

VN Adoptee – AustraliaTeacher & Community EngagementTeacher, Long term Community Engagement with SA VN and Multicultural Communities & Media Artist   Ruth Tulloch’s original Bio PDF can be found here:  ruthbio.pdf (705 KB)   Qualifications:Bachelor of Social Science and  Diploma in Management Community Services. Job Occupation:Lecturer at TAFE SA, teaching students who aspire to work in the social work, [...]

VN Adoptee - AustraliaJournalist   Background: Catherine Turner’s first cries woke up a hamlet in South Vietnam. Her father was killed in battle and her severely impoverished mother gave her up to an orphanage. After hours of bartering, Baby Catherine finally convinced the Turners to extend their Australian family. Catherine grew up in a NSW country [...]

VN Adoptee – Australia Writer & Researcher – PhD, Sociology AVI Founder & Convener (International) Touring Transcultural Adoptee Films (TTAF) Initiative Convener (Australia) AVI Bio / Publications / Personal Website   Dr Indigo Willing, OAM, is the convener of the Adopted Vietnamese International (AVI) community network, which was launched in 2000 and is dedicated to Vietnam War adoptees. Indigo [...]