What is
Padme?
Padme is a meeting ground and support system for adoptive parents, potential adoptive parents, adoptees and other stakeholders in the ecosystem.
Padme aims to demystify adoption, and encourage open conversations about it. We also mitigate social conditioning that stigmatises adoption (including but not limited to children who are perceived as more ‘difficult to adopt’ such as special needs children, older children and others)
The long term aim is to popularise adoption as an alternate way to start a family, rather than as a fallback option.
The Logo
Padme means lotus, and we believe the lotus is the perfect metaphor for this initiative. Given favourable conditions and the right nurturing, a lotus blooms regardless of the origins.
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Preparedness Workshops
Why adopt?
Post adoption
Stakeholder Support
Preadoption
Telling your child
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understand the attachment process, and have clarity between
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Questions related to the pandemic and its impact in the adoption space.
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Blended families: The siblings bonded instantly, and our daughter reciprocated our love instantly
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