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ADOPTION
In accordance with the decisions made by the MdM Board of Directors, the adoption service closed on 31 December 2019.
The transition period, which had lasted several years, enabled the closure to take place under the best possible conditions for the families who had placed their trust in the MdM body authorised to oversee adoptions (the OAA).
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All the families supported by MdM in the adoption process have been able to pursue their adoption plans thanks to the significant involvement of the whole team which organised the transfer of all files to other adoption bodies.
The monitoring of the adoption service and of some of the families who had already adopted children is not completely finished. Links with certain families, our partners and the administrative authorities continue and some activity is therefore ongoing.
In total, 4,244 children have been adopted by 3,666 families.
ACTIVITIES IN 2019
One final child arrived in France from Haiti for adoption. Follow-up was provided for 112 children by teams at our regional offices and at MdM headquarters. A day-long event was organised on 21 November 2019, the day after World Children’s Day, in order to look back at the very first years of the adoption service, acknowledge three decades of international adoptions and thank the families for their trust and the teams for the level of commitment they demonstrated.
EXPERTISE
The work undertaken by MdM on international adoption, in particular for children with special needs, continues to receive recognition from all those involved in the adoption process. MdM is acknowledged for its ethical approach, the support it has provided to families, its professionalism and its expertise.
Head of mission: Zohra Clet Executive Director: Joël Weiler
Members of the Adoption Committee representing
the Board: Dr Philippe de Botton (endocrinologist), Alexandre Kamarotos (Director of Defence for Children International). Human resources: 3 employees and 78 volunteers once again worked on the adoption programme in 2019, with the work divided between headquarters and the regional offices.
