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R Court and Mickie Olson started the formal process of
adopting a Vietnamese-American orphan in February 1973
One-and-one-half months later, the half-black,
half-Vietnamese baby girl they were to adopt died.
They immediately wrote to the orphanage to request
another child under 3 years old. .
U$t June the Olsons carried a lo-montn-oid
half-Caucasian, half-Vietnamesa girl off the airplane in
Omaha. They named her Karey Nu.
Karey, who weighted 15 lb. and could barely sit up
alone, was malnourished. Staph infections covered her
head, and she was partially blind in her right eye because of
a scarred cornea.
Now Karey is almost 23-months-old and her weight has
nearly doubled. Her eye is improving. She can walk. The
staph infections are gone.
"In six months, we have gone through all the stages of
two years (with Karey)," Ms. Olson said.
Karey was adopted from the Tan Binh orphanage in
Camranh, South Vietnam, the site of the largest naval base
in Indochina.
The orphanage, staffed by 12 Vietnamese nuns, has
about 180 children and was buiit by the U.S. Navy.
"That is fitting," Ms. Olson said, "because they (Navy
men) fathered many of the children in it."
Tan Binh is a comparatively good orphanage, according
to Ms. Olson. She said the Go Vap orphanage in Saigon has
1,200 children with a staff of 1 2.
At Tin Binh, medical care is limited to one doctor's
monthly visits.
"it's ironic, but the orphanage is worse off now that the
U.S. troops are gone," Ms. Olson said. The troops left
South Vietnam a year ago.
"They played with the children and brought them
clothing," Ms. Olson said.
The U.S. Armed Forces also provided medical care and
treated children at base medical facilities, she said.
Such care is needed because the mortality rate is close to
80 per cent for orphans under 2.
Karey had never eaten solid food nor worn diapers.
Karey was one of about 25,000 racially-mixed babies in
South Vietnam. According to Newsweek (May 28, 1973),
the number could be as high as 100,000.
Including full-blooded Vietnamese, there are 250,000
homeless children in South Vietnam.
Vietnamese parents "have the mistaken idea that
children are better off in orphanages," Ms. Olson said.
"Orphanages are having problems with the South
Vietnamese government," said Olson, who is an assistant
professor of construction management at UN L.
"The government does not favor a mass exit of orphans.
It would look as if Vietnam cannot support her own
children," he said.
Ms. Olson said Tan Binh got into trouble for letting eight
orphans go last December. The usual number is four or five.
Vietnamese-American orphans may be adopted through
an agency or independently through 8 lawyer in South
Vietnam.
Waiting lists of two years exist at the four international
adoption agencies recognized by South Vietnam's
government according to the Olsons.
An independent proxy adoption-the process the Olsons
used-may require less time, but is no less difficult;
communication was the biggest problem, they said.
The Olsons worked through an Omaha group of about
40 sets of adoptive parents. The group, whicli has no
official name, helps support Tan Binh and also screens
potential adoptive parents for the orphanage.
After the Olsons contacted Tan Binh and were accepted,
a Saigon lawyer charged $200 to process adoption papers.
Transportation costs of nearly $350 were the other major
expense.
Unique problems for the Olsons included the death of
the original child assigned them end a mix-up of papers in
Omaha.
The Olsons were critical of the U.S. government's lack of
concern for Vietnamese-American orphans. They said they
met no "open resistance," but Ms. Olson emphasized that
the U.S. government is "not doing anything."
Under the Foreion Assistance Act of 1973, the U.S.
granted $5 million for the orphans of South Vietnam.
"If there are 250,000 homeless children, that means
only $20 per child," she said.
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