DNA reunites Salvadoran families

Hundreds of Salvadoran children adopted and taken to the U.S. during El Salvador’s civil war are taking advantage of a DNA database to reunite with their long-lost families. U.S. and El Salvador based human rights groups in charge if the project admit that it is difficult task to sift through incomplete records and put the pieces together of families in El Salvador with offspring they gave up as long as 25 years ago. Yet they are hopeful of success stories such as that of 21-year-old Angela Fillingim who was left for adoption at the age of six months yet will meet her birth mother in El Salvador next year. (Image depicts a street child in El Salvador).

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