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Jat khali...— the empty place in the heart

Someone in Iran is looking for you, too.

Jatkhali is a quiet home for Iranian adoptees and the families searching beside them. One profile, written in your own words — and a community that knows what a single photograph can weigh.

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Adoptee

A Jatkhali member

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Real member profiles stream in as soon as the directory is fetched — each one published by the person it belongs to.

Born
Adopted
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A real member layout — every listing is published by the person it belongs to.

How it works

Three honest steps

  1. 1

    Say who you are

    Adoptee, adoptive family, or neither — yet. Pick the label that fits and answer only the questions that apply to you.

  2. 2

    Decide what the world sees

    One switch publishes your headline and story to the directory. Documents, phone numbers and addresses stay in your dashboard.

  3. 3

    Meet in the middle

    When two profiles might belong to each other, someone on our team writes to both sides. Nothing is forwarded without a yes.

What is inside

Built for the parts nobody else handles

Why we exist

A profile you write yourself

City of origin, the years you know, the fragment of a lullaby — whatever you have, it lives in one place instead of a drawer.

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Searching, without searching alone

Guides for Iranian civil records, DNA matching between adoptees, and the paperwork that takes eleven months.

Adoption paths

Farsi, Dutch, Swedish, English

Members translate documents and sit in on first calls, so nobody has to say something this large in a second language.

Language resources

Legal help that has done this before

A network of lawyers who have opened sealed files, and a straight answer about what is possible in which country.

Legal support

Reunions, handled with care

Preparation, mediation and aftercare. A first phone call is the easiest thing to rush and the hardest thing to undo.

How matching works

Community evenings

Reading groups in Copenhagen, a records workshop in Prague, Tuesday calls for people with no idea where to begin.

Families of origin

In their own words

“He is 84 and he keeps my photograph next to the tea tray. Nobody warned me a reunion could be that ordinary and that enormous.”
Mitra — Malmö
“Thirty-one years, three DNA matches and one very patient caseworker. I would do it again tomorrow.”
Arash — Amsterdam
“I arrived with no papers and one memory. The Tuesday group listened anyway, and that is how I stopped feeling embarrassed.”
Bijan — Manchester

Questions people ask first

The half that is missing has a name.

Start with one true detail — a city, a year, a photograph, a song. That is where every search in this community began.

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