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A group of 33 Haitian children who have been adopted by French families arrived in Paris on Friday evening. They left the school where they had sought shelter and are on their way to France. Aged between one and six years old, they will be met at the airport by their new families.
Haiti orphans arrive at France
Thirty-three Haitian children adopted by French families flew into Paris Friday, airport officials told AFP, leaving behind a country shattered by the January 12 earthquake that killed thousands. The children, aged between one and six years, were met at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport by Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as their new families and medical teams.
French parents meet their adopted children
Several of the children had lived in a nursery that was severely damaged in last week's earthquake but "not a single child was injured and not a single adoption file was lost," French consul in Haiti, Jean-Pierre Gueguan, told AFP. The children -- some orphans and others abandoned -- had on Thursday left the school where they had taken shelter after the destruction and headed to the Port-au-Prince airport singing "the little train". Each had a Haitian passport with the family name of their adoptive family but also their birth family's surname. "It's very important that a child knows where he came from," one nurse said. In the days since the quake, families around the world in the process of adopting Haitian children have pressured their governments to speed up the adoption process.

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