Presentation

As of February 22, 2024, Destinées will no longer be authorized to operate in Vietnam and in Slovakia.
Only COFA and AFA will be accredited for Vietnam and AYUDA for Slovakia.
Families interested to adopt in Vietnam are invited from today to contact :
https://cofa-adoption.org/
or
https://www.agence-adoption.fr/

Families wishing to adopt in Slovakia are invited from today to contact :
Ayuda.association@orange.fr

Jurisdiction

Candidates for adoption can only turn to approved bodies which have obtained an authorisation issued by the services of social aid to childhood in their area of residence. Destined declared its activity, accepted in return, in the following departments :

02 - Aisne	35 - Ille-et-Vilaine	69 - Métropole de Lyon
04 - Alpes de Haute-Provence	38 - Isère	70 - Haute-Saône
06 - Alpes-Maritimes	45 - Loiret	74 - Haute-Savoie
08 - Ardennes	47 - Lot-et-Garonne	75 - Paris
10 - Aube	50 - Manche	77 - Seine-et-Marne
13 - Bouches-du-Rhône	51 - Marne	79 - Deux-Sèvres
17 - Charente-Maritime	52 - Haute-Marne	80 - Somme
20 A - Corse du Sud	54 - Meurthe-et-Moselle	81 - Tarn
20 B - Haute-Corse	55 - Meuse	83 - Var
21 - Côte d'Or	57 - Moselle	84 - Vaucluse
24 - Dordogne	59 - Nord	85 - Vendée
25 - Doubs	64 - Pyrénées Atlantiques	88 - Vosges
28 - Eure-et-Loir	65 - Hautes-Pyrénées	90 - Territoire de Belfort
29 - Finistère	67 - Bas-Rhin	91 - Essone
33 - Gironde	68 - Haut-Rhin	92 - Hauts-de-Seine

The authorised and accredited body is regularly to deposit a declaration of activity in other departments, thus providing an opportunity to study new applications.

Number of children

	Viêt Nam		Slovaquie		Total
	By year	Aggregate	By year	Aggregate
2005	15	15			15
2006	64	79			79
2007	109	188			188
2008	23	211			211
2009	48	259			259
2010	65	324			324
2011	28	352			352
2012	2	354			354
2013	2	356			356
2014	7*	363			363
2015	11*	374			374
2016	12*	386			386
2017	23 (20*)	409	3	3	412
2018	11 (9*)	420			423
2019	7 (7*)	427			430
2020	4 (1*)	431	1	4	435
2021	7 (3*)	438			442
2022	10 (4*)	448	1	5	453
2023	7	455			460
2024	4	459			464

* : children with special needs

Scope of activities

Destinées is a AAB whose object is by the adoption to find in France a family for Slovak or Vietnamese children permanently deprived of his or her family in the country of origin. Destinées partners with the Hoa Trang - Fleur Blanche Association (www.fleur-blanche.org) wich help to improve the future of Vietnamese and Slovak children whether adoptable or not.

Destinées is recognised as a major operator in its role as an qualified intermediate to find adoptive families for children originating from Vietnam or Slovakia.

Destinées wants to respect both in France and in the country of origin, under the Hague Convention, the laws and conventions binding France to these two countries, the values which have inspired its own creation:

the primacy of the interests of the child. It is intended to seek for a child who would have no alternative in his country of origin, a French family having an “actual ability” to the accommodation of a child;
fairness, equality, transparency, secularism.

In this context, Destinées ensure that:

The selection of the families applying for project approval;
Information and preparation of selected sets;
Control and transmission of files required by the country of origin;
Their progress in the countries of origin;
The transmission of linked proposed by countries of origin;
Supporting families at the meeting with their child;
Monitoring post adoption and preparation of monitoring reports.

Applying to Destinées

Destinées only responds to letter of adoption applicants arriving by mail to secretariat@destinees.org

In return Destinées adresses the family an introductory note and a list of deliverables to be candidates.
In order to determine whether the candidates present a compatibile project with the adoptable children and suitable to the requirements of countries of origin, a reading commission of the case files shall meet in order to give a first opinion. Then one or more (exploratory talks with members of the body or external speakers) are foreseen and the Management Board decides whether or not the admissibility of the application.
At the end of the application, the family is invited to complete and sign a Relationship Development Project. It must then fill and sign an adoption file, required by the authorities of the country selected. There is at this stage no guarantee for family to have a child by Destinées.

Contact :

OAA DESTINEES
Centre Blenovista
Rue de Maidières
54700 BLENOD-LES-PONT-A-MOUSSON
Courriel : secretariat@destinees.org

To know more about international adoption : consult the governement adopted portal in France and abroad