In just forty-eight hours we had to physically bring one hundred infants from foster homes scattered throughout Saigon to our center, with travel constantly impeded by hordes of panicked people. We were working under a limited timetable and were further handicapped by an imposed curfew. We, with our child care and nursing staff accustomed to caring for thirty infants and now inundated with the care of one hundred-eighty children during a two-day period, had to prepare for the impending flight. This meant we had to gather medical supplies necessary to sustain the lives of the critically ill infants, and to prepare gallons of formula as well as vast amounts of clothing and diapers.

Once these infants arrived in the United States and were placed with approved adoptive families, we provided them with a paper. Papers were assigned to provide the infant with an identity; this was thus done as it had been done in the past. The papers assigned were the very papers which we would have used for this class of infants had we remained in Viet Nam. These infants and papers came into our care and custody through one of the following eight orphanages licensed in the Republic of Viet Nam. Over three-fourths of the infants brought by Friends of Children of Viet Ram on the orphan airlift came from Providence Orphanage located in Can Tho, or Providence Orphanage located in Soc Trang, or Sancta Maria Orphanage located in Gia Dinh, or Vung Tau Christian Home located in Vung Tau.

The statements and facts presented relate to a particular class of orphans:  namely, infants abandoned at birth and relinquished to our custody.  These infants were a part of the total number of children evacuated under the auspices of Friends of Children of Viet Nam during Operation BabyLift.