The following teaser is from an article posted in the January 23, 2013 edition of the Irish Examiner.
The Philomena Project, in association with the Adoption Rights Alliance, will be launched in Dublin tomorrow by Philomena Lee and will lobby the Irish State to grant access to adoption records for both in-country and Irish-US adopted people and their families.
The Philomena Project has come about through the story of Ms Lee’s 50-year search for her son, recently brought to global attention via the Oscar-nominated film Philomena, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and based on journalist Martin Sixsmith’s book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee.
The project aims to provide finance, campaigning mechanisms, supports, and services to natural mothers who have been unable to or prevented from tracing children taken from them by adoption, particularly forced and illegal adoptions.
It will also assist the now adult children, particularly those taken to the US, to trace their natural mothers, fathers, and extended families, and to obtain their birth certificates and other relevant records.
