First group of evacuees, including six adoption children from Haiti, arrive back in the Netherlands
January 17th, 2010 - 10:33 pm ICT by BNO News ( Leave a comment )
EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS (BNO NEWS) — The first group of evacuees from earthquake-ravaged Haiti arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday, officials said.
Six adoption children from Haiti and five Dutch adults arrived at the military airport in Eindhoven around 2 p.m. local time. The group arrived in a Royal Netherlands Air Force plane, the KDC10 Jan Scheffer, and were welcomed by a child adoption organization called Wereldkinderen (Worldchildren), a medical team of Mondial International, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Among the five Dutch adults is one mother of one of the adoption children. The other four adults were in Haiti for other reasons when the earthquake struck. The parents of the other five adoption children hugged their children after they arrived back home.
The KDC10 Jan Scheffer is the largest transportation plane of the Dutch Air Force and left last Thursday carrying the first aid and rescue teams from the Netherlands. The plane was initially diverted to Curacao because the airport in Haiti was not able to handle all incoming planes.
One severely injured adoption child and three Dutch adults will remain on Curacao for the time-being.
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