UNICEF: Reuniting families in Haiti

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_52642.html

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 29 January 2010 UNICEF has carried out assessments at more than 60 orphanages throughout the devastated capital, Port-au-Prince. Mobile teams are identifying and registering children who have been orphaned or separated from their families by the quake.

While there are thousands of potential surrogate parents willing to adopt them, newly orphaned children like Rodrigue need physical and emotional support where they are.

UNICEF's experience shows that such support is best provided as part of a programme that seeks to reunite children with their families.

"We are exhausting all the efforts we have to find their parents or their extended family," says UNICEF Regional Child Protection Specialist Caroline Bakker.

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how do you find the parents?

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Thanks UNCIEF for all the hard work you're doing in HAITI. Our prayers are with you and HAITI