The Mothers’ Bridge of Love Adoption Dialogue (Round 5)

In 2024 The Mothers’ Bridge of Love set up an online quarterly event—The Adoption Dialogue, helping international Chinese adoptees and adoptive families communicate with each other, raise social awareness on adoption and support other adoptees and adoptive families from across the world. In 2025, this series of events revolves around adoption healing. We hope to bring about real, personal experiences and feelings from adoptees and adoptive families and connect people via sharing and healing together.

In this event, we will be mainly discussing the difficulties and inner struggles faced by many adoptees as well as the voice of love and hope that gives us strength and helps cultivate our selfhood.

The Mothers’ Bridge of Love

Adoption Dialogue (Round 5)

Theme: Being Adopted: Difficulties, Struggles, and Hope

Guest Speakers: Rosie (adoptee from the UK) & Ming (Adoptee from the US)

GUEST—Rosie currently works as a sales associate at Fortnum and Mason London. She graduated with a degree in photography at the University of Westminster and has a passion for creating and expressing herself through artistic mediums.

GUEST—Ming was adopted from Kunming, Yunnan in 1994. She was first raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and then moved to a small town in New Hampshire. She studied at the University of Vermont majoring in Chinese Language. She moved post grad to Seattle Washington and has involved with the adoptee community through Aaian Adult Adoptees of Washington. She has also been involved with other online groups such as China's Childewb International. Her love of China and learning about what it means to be Chinese has grown throughout the years.

HOST—Siwei was adopted from Gansu China and has been raised in Northwest China. She is now doing her PhD at SOAS, University of London. She is the founder and director of a grass-root initiative in China promoting gender equality.

Event Format:

·       Open remarks

·       Introduction to MBL and the Adoption Dialogue

·       Personal sharing by guest speakers

·       Interactive Q&A and discussion

·       Introduction to MBL service for Chinese adoptees seeking to reconnect with their roots and ancestry in China

·       Closing remarks

Date & Time: March 30 2025, 20:00 (UK Time)

15:00 US/Canada East，12:00 US/Canada West，03:00 China Mar 31，06:00 Australia Mar 31）

Venue: Zoom Meeting

Join Zoom Meeting: https://brookes.zoom.us/j/87204205001

Meeting ID: 872 0420 5001

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The primary language of the event will be English, with simultaneous interpretation available in both Chinese and English.