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Dutch women embark on quest in China to find birth parents of their adopted girls

Two families visit Changzhou in latest attempt to locate girls’ biological parents, vow they won’t give up

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A leaflet requesting information about one of the teenage girls, Chang Hualu. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Two women from the Netherlands are looking for the biological parents of their adopted daughters in eastern China and have promised to keep up the search for the rest of their lives if necessary.

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Martine Kingma and Irma Kuilbore each adopted a baby girl from the Changzhou Children’s Welfare Institute, an orphanage, in 2006 and 2004.

They returned to Changzhou, Jiangsu province, recently to help their beloved girls – Chang Yiyu and Chang Hualu – find their biological parents, Thepaper.cn reported.

A leaflet requesting information about Chang Yiyu. Photo: SCMP Pictures
A leaflet requesting information about Chang Yiyu. Photo: SCMP Pictures
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Each woman has already tried to find the parents of the girl she adopted. Kingma returned to Changzhou last year to make an attempt, and Kuilbore made the trip in 2012, the report said.

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