This is a starter list of web sites which are specific to adoption in individual countries, with emphasis on China and Vietnam. Each site has its own list of links to other web sites.

Suggestions? Send them to Robin Hilborn.

ALL: State Dept. - International Adoption, www.travel.state.gov/adopt.html. [Best site, Forbes, 2000] [NAIC pick, 2000] Country-by-country summaries of adoption laws for U.S. citizens. Updates on various countries. Validity of foreign adoptions in the U.S. Child Citizenship Act, 2000. Vaccines. Visas. Statistics. Hague Convention.

BULGARIA: Families with Children from Bulgaria, www.orbitweb.com/facab

CHINA: Asia for Kids, www.asiaforkids.com

CHINA: Baby Names, www.kabalarians.com/html/surf-by.htm. Choose a Chinese name, or another, for your child.

CHINA: Celebrate the Child, www.celebratechild.com. Cultural items and books

CHINA: China Adoption Resources, www.tussah.com/lara/chinares.htm

CHINA: China Adoption Webring, www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/2636/webring.html. 400 web sites.

CHINA: China Centre of Adoption Affairs, www.china-ccaa.org In Beijing.

CHINA: China Connection, www.chinaconnectiononline.com. Newsletter, by Bob Crawford.

CHINA: China Internet Resources, fwcc.org/internetsources.html. Links, personal China adoption stories, adoption agencies.

CHINA: China Sprout, www.chinasprout.com

CHINA: Chinabooks, www.chinabooks.com

CHINA: Chinadopt, www.pshrink.com/chinadopt

CHINA: Chinese Zodiac, found.cs.nyu.edu/liaos/calendar.html

CHINA: Coming Home/Shared Blessings, www.night.net/rosie

CHINA: Families With Children From China, www.fwcc.org. FCC national site.

CHINA: Families With Children From China, Saskatchewan , www.geocities.com/saskfcc. Many links. Ann DeVito

CHINA: Families With Children From China: B.C. and NW Washington, www.bcadoption.com/fcc

CHINA: Families With Kids From Asia, www.delphi.com/asiankids. [Canadian reader pick, 2001]

CHINA: Little Treasures of Ottawa, www.geocities.com/lil_treasures_ottawa. Ottawa-area families with children from China. Mark Tooker

CHINA: My Home Town, www.magma.ca/~mtooker/cities. Learn about your home town and home province in China. Mark Tooker

CHINA: Our Chinese Daughter's Foundation, www.it.ilstu.edu/~Liedtke/ocdf.html. Grants to single mothers of children from China. Long list of China resources.

CHINA: Red Thread, www.redthreadmag.com. Magazine for adoptive families of Chinese children.

CHINA: EASTERN EUROPE: Eastern European Adoption Coalition, www.eeadopt.org. For those adopting from Eastern Europe. Family support. Agency registry. 15 email lists.

GUATEMALA: Guatemala Adoptive Families Network (GAFN), www.guatefam.org, info@guatefam.org. Families with children from Guatemala maintain lasting connections to Guatemala. --July 9, 2001

GUATEMALA: Guatemala Stove Project, www.guatemalastoveproject.org. Canadian volunteers build masonry cookstoves and provide other resources to improve the health of women and children in the Guatemalan Altiplano (Western Highlands). 22-minute video available. Ali Ross and Tom Clarke, info@guatemalastoveproject.org. --July 9, 2001

HAITI: Heart of God Ministries, hgm.org/adoption.html [Canadian reader pick, 2001] Heart of God Orphanage and Haitian Adoption Ministries.

INDIA: Connections, www.connections-india.com. Quarterly for families adopting from India. Gail Walton.

INDIA: IChild, www.ichild.org. Indian adoption resources.

INTERNATIONAL: AICAN, Australian Intercountry Adoption Network, aican.hypermart.net. Australian intercountry adoption groups. Email club for intercountry adoption interests in Australia is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OzICA.

INTERNATIONAL: ASIAC, Australian Society for Intercountry Aid for Children (NSW), www.asiac.org.au. Support group for prospective adopters, adoptive families and the sponsor of an overseas aid fund.

KOREA: Kadopkids Photo Gallery, www.angelfire.com/co/Smallnose/picgalery0.html

KOREA: Korean Adoptees Worldwide, clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/koreanadopteesworldwide. Sunny Jo. Vancouver-based Internet Club for and by Korean adoptees. Korean adoption and related issues.

KOREA: Prospective Parent's Guide to Korean Adoption, www.adoptkorea.com

KOREA: Saet Byol Korean School, www.saetbyol.edu.au. For Korean adoptees, Sydney, Australia. Email club for Korean adoptive network in Australia is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Australia-adopt-korea.

LATIN AMERICA: Latin America Parents Assn., National Capital Region, www.lapa-ncr.org. Washington DC support group.

LATIN AMERICA: Latin America Parents Assn., New York, www.lapa.com. Brooklyn NY support group.

LATIN AMERICA: Latin America Parents Assn. of Northern New Jersey, www.lapa-nnj.com. New Jersey support group.

LATIN AMERICA: Latin American Adoptive Families, www.marisol.com/laaf/laafhome.htm. LAAF get-togethers in Massachusetts and New Jersey/Pennsylvania.

PARAGUAY: Paraguay Adoption Resources, www.pyadopt.org. online shopping. Friends List. Community groups. PALS email list. Steven D. Weinstock

ROMANIA: Assn. of Adoptive Parents of Romanian Children, www3.sympatico.ca/tommasini.lepore. Laval QC. Liliana Tommasini.

RUSSIA / UKRAINE: Families For Russian and Ukranian Adoption, www.frua.org

RUSSIA: International Medical Clinic, Moscow, www.russianadoption.org

UKRAINE: Adoption from Ukraine Internet Club, groups.yahoo.com/group/Adoption_from_Ukraine. Sonia Kondrat.

VIETNAM: Adopt Vietnam, www.adoptvietnam.org. 200 articles on Vietnam adoption.

VIETNAM: Adoptive Parents of Vietnam, www.comeunity.com/apv

VIETNAM: Destination: Vietnam, www.destinationvietnam.com/adoption/adoption.htm. Articles.

VIETNAM: Families with Children From Vietnam, www.fcvn.org. [Canadian reader pick, 2001] All about Vietnamese adoption. Children's photo gallery, parent-to-parent email listing.

VIETNAM: International Mission of Hope, Vietnam, www.imh-vn.org./welcome.htm. Facilitator for Access.

VIETNAM: Travel in Vietnam, www.jandodd.com/vietnam/guide.htm. Jan Dodd.

VIETNAM: Vietnam's Children, www.public.asu.edu/~wcree/adopt/index.htm. Adoption from Vietnam.