Monday, January 25, 2010

An AGCI Ethiopia Update

So often we are asked about our adoption agency,allgodschildren.org and I find I cannot say enough good things about them. I also cannot say enough wonderful things about the families that are adopting through our agency. I thought I would share here a recent update about the thriving Ethiopia program. The number of families adopting is certainly growing and that is excellent news. It is great fun to hear about new paperwork, referrals, upcoming court dates and families who are on their way to pick up their sweet babes. Now that we have come this far in the process we are always so eager to encourage other families to consider adoption. So take a look at these numbers. They are looking good...


Family and Referral Update

  • Families Home: 9 families have returned home with their children from Ethiopia since our last update
  • Waiting for Travel: 6 families are in Ethiopia this week and 14 families are currently awaiting travel or in the court process
  • Referrals: 1 infant girl, 1 infant boy, 2 toddler boys, and 2 toddler girls
  • Waiting for Girl Referrals: 49 families waiting for a referral of a girl
  • Waiting for Boy Referrals: 32 families waiting for a referral of a boy
  • Waiting for Sibling Referrals: 18 families waiting for a sibling referral
  • Families Working on Dossier: 64 families working on their dossiers
  • New Families: 4 families new to the program. Welcome!

1 comment:

JonesEthiopia said...

Nice, huh? It is exciting to see some movement this week!

Into Our Arms Forever!

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welcome home ava! from melanie Strobel on Vimeo.

Meeting Ava during our first trip to Ethiopia

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Meeting Ava Ethiopia Trip July 2010 from melanie Strobel on Vimeo.

Korah- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

During our recent visit to Ethiopia I felt very called to the village of Korah in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. There have been numerous rumblings lately about the tremendous need to help the children of Korah who are growing up in and around the local trash dump. The village was established 75 years ago as a place to send people with leprosy who were said to be cursed. Now there is a 3rd generation of people living in Korah with nearly 100,000 suffering from such things as leprosy, HIV, misc disease and of course malnutrition. There are many children of Korah who have been forced to live and work at the trash dump in hopes of finding food and possible items to sell in Korah's center of town. With the start of the Great Hope Church in Korah and the building of a shelter, along with the ministry of local Sammy Liben and Sumer Yates, there is now a feeding program and a sponsorship program in place to rescue the forgotten children of Korah and send them to boarding school where they can escape the horror of the conditions of living and working in a large trash dump. For more information please visit: www.help4korah.blogspot.com or www.p61.org where you can learn more about how you or your organization can help the people and the children of Korah. Please send me a message or email Erin Allen at erin@p61.org to request sponsorship information. I will soon be posting the photos of my day recently spent in Korah. I must tell you it was life changing and beyond anything I have ever done to stretch, change and rearrange myself. God helped me to help the people who I met. Much of what I could offer was nothing more than the snap of my camera or a warm touch or an inviting smile. The needs in Korah are beyond our wildest imagination yet God is over Korah and there is already amazing work being done. I invite you to view the following videos to learn more about the beauty and the needs of Korah's people.

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Hannah's Hope Orphanage- Ethiopia

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