Watch: Indian Woman, Adopted By Foreign Couple, Meets Her Orphanage Guardian After 18 Years

A tear-jerking video that shows an adult woman meeting her orphanage guardian after 18 years is going viral. The clip shows Shivani Schulz, who was adopted by a foreign couple and subsequently moved abroad, returning to India and meeting the woman who took care of her and her brother when they were in an orphanage.

Now years later, Shivani returned to the orphanage with her baby and husband. In the caption, Shivani wrote, “This is the woman who took care of my brother and I. When I saw her again, she smiled but mostly kept her distance. It wasn’t until we were leaving that she started to cry. She couldn’t speak English, and I couldn’t speak her language, but I think we understood each other”

This video has gotten over 3.8 lakh likes so far. An Instagram user wrote, “There’s a universal language called LOVE, and we all can speak and understand it.”

Another person wrote, “Immensely moving, the power of love, empathy, embracing and forgiveness. Nothing but immense love and goodness to you both.”

Someone else remarked, “This made me cry, I would say people grown up at orphanages are so special. An orphanage is a temple without any religion, caste or hatred. This touched me and made me emotional.”

In an earlier video, Shivani explained how she stopped speaking Hindi and wrote, “Up until my adoption I was fluent in speaking Hindi, but because of the pain, trauma, and anger that I had towards my past, I purposely decided to stop speaking my mother tongue and only speak English.”

Shivani has made a series of videos about her adoption story. She shared that her earliest memories of her biological parents are of her abusive father hitting her “scared” mother. After her parents got divorced, Shivani and her brother would divide their time between the two parents. One day their mother was taking them to their father.

At the train station, the crowd descended from a train and that’s when Shivani lost hold of her mother’s hand. When the crowd cleared up, their mother was not to be found. Somehow she was still holding her younger brother’s hand.

The siblings were then moved to an orphanage for newborn kids by a “kind man”. They were then transferred to another orphanage in Delhi, where the kids were of their age. She and her brother spent three years at the orphanage before they were adopted. Shivani was six years old at the time of her adoption.