Two adoption organisations have chartered a plane to bring back 109 children from earthquake-hit Haiti whose adoptions were on the point of being finalised, Trouw reports on Monday.

The flight has been organised with the backing of the foreign affairs and justice ministries, the paper says. The plane is set to leave Schiphol airport on Monday afternoon, and will carry doctors and nursing staff from several aid organisations on its outward journey.
‘We are extremely concerned about the children so we want to fetch them as soon as possible,’ Letje Vermunt from the Dutch adoption foundation NAS told Trouw. The organisation has been in touch with its orphanages in Haiti and the children are safe, but some parts of one building have collapsed, she said.
‘The situation on Haiti is terrible and we want to get there as quickly as we can,’ she told the paper.
A spokesman for the foreign affairs ministry told the paper the rescue mission is a very complicated operation. If the plane manages to land, officials will then have to track down the children and finalise the paperwork with local officials. Three consular workers and an immigration service official are also making the trip to Haiti to speed up the process.
Nine of the children being brought back to the Netherlands do not yet have adoptive parents lined up. They will be looked after in a foster family until the adoption process can be started, Trouw said.
Survivors
The first Dutch survivors to be rescued from Haiti arrived back in the Netherlands on Sunday morning. The flight arrived in Eindhoven with six adults and six adoptive children aged three to seven on board. A further five adoptive children destined for the Netherlands arrived in Brussels later on Sunday.
Meanwhile the number of Dutch nationals missing on the island has risen to 22, the foreign ministry said. Several of those thought to have died were in Haiti to fetch their adoptive children.
Aid
The European Union is preparing a special mission to Haiti to help maintain law and order during the rescue and clean-up operation, foreign minister Maxime Verhagen told reporters on Sunday.
It is not yet clear which countries will support the mission, he said.
A number of radio and television stations have announced plans to hold a fund-raising evening on Thursday. So far, some €3.3m has been deposited in the special joint charity bank account 555.