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The following 20 questions were asked to each of the 42 licensed agencies in Vietnam and the resulting answers will follow, by agency:
- How long has your agency been in business? How long specifically in Vietnam?
- Who are the facilitators working on behalf of the agency? Would you be willing to share a photo of your facilitators?
- How long have each of your facilitators worked in Vietnam adoptions and in what capacity? What is their experience?
- Where is your agency’s office or offices in Vietnam?
- How many Vietnam staff work for your agency in Vietnam in any capacity? Are these full time, part time or volunteer workers?
- What humanitarian aid programs does your agency run? Are these programs run through a separate organization or managed directly by your agency?
- What humanitarian projects, if any, did your agency participate in during the shutdown?
- How much money does your agency dedicate to humanitarian aid per year?
- What orphanages does your agency support? Can you describe, briefly, the atmosphere of these orphanages?
- What kind of oversight does your agency provide in orphanages to ensure that orphanages are acting ethically and children are being kept safe and healthy?
- Would you be willing to share a copy of your contract as a public record for interested potential adoptive parents to peruse via our website?
- Does your contract contain any gag clause? If so, why?
- Has your agency been threatened with or received a NOID since January 2006? If yes, please share relevant details, if possible.
- If yes, how many of the NOIDs have since been overturned, if any?
- If yes, did you effect any changes within your agency or staff to avoid similar outcomes in the future?
- If yes, did you offer supportive services for the parents while they fought the NOID or NOIDs?
- What efforts does your agency employ to encourage ethical adoptions in Vietnam?
- How many adoptions have been completed by your agency since the MOU was signed?
- How many waiting families, approximately, are currently in your program?
- Is there any other information your agency wishes to share about its Vietnam program that might help parents in search of ethical adoptions make a very difficult agency decision?
The following agencies have submitted answers to these questions for publication: