An article from Expatica.com.
Crossing borders: A family quest
One woman’s search to find her biological parents across an ocean has led to a network to help other foreign-born adopted children.
When international adoptee Marcia Engel set out to find her biological parents, she found that the system wasn’t geared to helping her—and that intermediary bodies were even exploiting her quest.
Her response was to create a network to give families the opportunity to reunite without having to resort to paying for help.
“I wanted to have this free registration system,” said Engel. “It is important that adoptees and their parents have the option to search for one another. Currently, parents and adoptees have little information and they always experience bumps in the road, dead ends.”
Engel’s newly launched Adoption Angels Network (www.adoptionangelsnetwork.com) is part of her initiative, Plan Angel, created after a long and torturous search for her biological parents.
Read the whole article here.
Harlow's Monkey 
I love & enjoy your blog. Please correct the spelling of your title – it’s Colombian, not “Columbian”. The article spells it wrong in one spot also – I’ve made a comment there also. Sorry, this is just one of my pet peeves! I have two cousins adopted from Colombia also so this sparked my interest. Keep up the good work.
No need to actually post this as a comment.
Thanks,
Amy