Children's Hope International E-Newsletter

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

God Was in Everything:
The Woods Colombia Adoption of 3 Siblings

Honored in Vietnam:
Aids Work Built and Building

DEVELOPMENT AID:

Orphan Tree of Hope:
Give and Celebrate National Adoption Month!

BLOG OF THE MONTH:

Share Her Whole Heart
... and Her Shopping

PARENT-TO-PARENT:

Parent-To-Parent
Caterpillars and Eyebrows: Bringing Up a Chinese Girl into a Young Woman

KIDS CORNER:

	Kids Corner Fall into a Leaves Project
	Calling all Young Artists: Share your child's art with Children's Hope.

PROGRAM UPDATES:

	China Twenty-four Children’s Hope China Families Travel to Unite with Their Children
	Colombia Program Director currently in Colombia
	Kazakhstan Trips for bonding and adoption finalization in Kazakhstan
	Russia Accreditation News? We’re Waiting, Too
	Vietnam Wait Times Increase with Applications on the Rise for Vietnam

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ETHIOPIA PROGRAM UPDATES

On September 11, Ethiopia celebrated its own new millennium. Welcome, Ethiopia, to the year 2000!
Adhering to the 13-month Julian calendar (which all countries followed for 1500 years), Ethiopia is now seven years and eight months behind the current international standard Gregorian calendar. The Ethiopian New Year is celebrated on 1 Meskerem, or September 11, which marks the end of the rainy season and the beginning of spring.
We at Children's Hope are excited to be a part of this new century in Ethiopia with our adoption program, and are eager to develop our humanitarian aid efforts in this country. Orphan sponsorship within Ethiopia is slated to begin in October 2007.
This month so far, we received a referral for two siblings - a 14-month-old girl and her 3-year-old brother. We were thrilled to be able to refer them to a Children's Hope family. More children are now entering the House of Hope, Children’s Hope transition home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As children prepare to take their medical examinations we hope to give referrals to families in coming weeks.
Congratulations to our referral family and congratulations to Ethiopia on this much celebrated occasion!

Our Children's Hope staff attended a mandatory meeting in Ethiopia in late August in which the Ethiopian ministries over international adoption discussed possible upcoming changes. As a result of this meeting, Children's Hope is no longer taking singles applications for our Ethiopia program until the final changes are announced. We have singles who are currently working on their dossier and we will be assisting their adoptions at this time.
As a new agency, Children’s Hope has previously been asked to abide by several of the possible requirements that previously licensed agencies are not yet required to implement with their families.
Proposed requirements awaiting approval:

3 year age gap between the youngest child in the home and the adopted child

Adoptive parents travel to Ethiopia to complete their adoption as opposed to escort

The number of children allowed in the prospective parents’ home prior to adoption

Singles availability to adopt from Ethiopia

Please keep in mind: when most countries change their requirements, they do not do so abruptly, but will typically give a time frame for the new implementation. When final changes are announced in Ethiopia, we will share them with our families.

The first four—our Ethiopia pioneer families’ adoptive children at House of Hope, Children’s Hope transition home in Addis Ababa.

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