This Swedish Daughter Tracked Down Her Biological Mother In India
- JWB Post
- March 17, 2016
This story might seem straight out of a Bollywood movie, but the only thing differentiating it from one is the fact that it is real.
This is the story of Elisabet Purve-Jorendal, who was given up for adoption by her biological mother at birth, and was adopted from an orphanage in Pune by a Swedish couple.
Though Elisabet grew up as a happy and contented girl, she could never really do away with the curiosity of exploring her actual roots.
“I always wondered about my mother in India. Who was she? How was she? Why did she leave me?”
With her curiosity getting the better of her, she set on an expedition to find her real mother but all she had as a cue were the names of her mother and grandparents on the adoption papers.
“I realised how hard it was to get anywhere with that. How do you find someone in a country of 1.2 billion people? It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. You must have the right connections, know how to press the right buttons,” Purve-Jorendal who now lives in Helsingborg on the Sweden-Denmark border, told BBC.
She started out looking for her birth mom in the year 1998, and nearly two decades later, her search ended in a small village in Maharashtra. This happened when she received a mail stating that her mother had been traced, from a Belgium-based voluntary organization – Against Child Trafficking (ACT), which she had contacted.
The mail also contained some pictures of the woman that Elizabet had been looking for since what seemed forever.
“I can’t describe my feelings. Here was a person I had longed for my whole life and then I see her photograph. It was beyond imagination. It was a miracle.”
“And suddenly I was there. Outside her house, outside her door. A social worker had been in touch with her so she was expecting me. She was sitting down and stood up when she saw me. I had a blackout, I did not react. She was also shocked.”
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