Hunan Adoption Administration Center







Welcome sign in the conference room.

We went to the Hunan Adoption Administration Center today. Honestly, we didn’t even know about this part of the adoption process prior to today. This office is responsible for (among other things) collecting information for each child’s dossier from the orphanage and compiling everything for submission to the China Center for Adoption Affairs in Beijing. They are also responsible for coordinating activities for returning adoptees. We met the current director, Zhang Ying, who said she was a registrar when Amanda was adopted, so we probably met her in 2002. She and Amanda exchanged gifts and then we sat down and talked with her about some of the tasks of the office she directs. It was just a little wierd that everyone consistently addressed Amanda as Xiaofeng, never Amanda. The director also made a point of noting that at least one adoptee had returned to China to work in Beijing, and that she might make that decision someday, as well. We toured several of the offices and met the current staff. We asked what kind of things the children in the orphanage might like to have and she suggested art supplies, so Rainbow took us to a local stationery shop after our visit and we picked up some drawing paper, journals, and a bunch of pens. We will give them to the children at the orphanage when we visit on Wednesday.

With director Zhang (black blouse) and her assistant.