Black/Vietnamese Children Available for Adoption
Diocesan Press Service. April 15, 1974 [74115]
NEW YORK, N. Y. -- A committee in the department of Church World Service (CWS) of the National Council of Churches (NCC), has announced that a limited number of abandoned or orphaned Vietnamese children fathered by blacks are available for adoption by black families in the United States.
The Immigration and Refugee Program Operating Committee of CWS is seeking to help place some of these children in black homes through the NCC member denominations, including the Episcopal Church.
The committee works with several agencies which arrange intercountry orphan adoptions, including Travelers Aid International Social Service of America and the Holt Adoption Program.
The agencies have agreed to give priority to cases submitted by denominational resettlement staff through CWS.
Other applications of interested prospective adoptive parents of Vietnamese orphans or abandoned children will be given consideration in the normal routine procedures of the adoption agencies without any priority.
Black families in the Episcopal Church who desire further information about adopting Black/Vietnamese children, or application forms, may write to: Mrs. Isis Brown, Refugee Resettlement, 815 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. Tel.: 212/867-8400.