ETHIOPIA PROGRAM UPDATES
Four Families Finalizing Adoptions
This Week
Six beautiful children came home
last week from Ethiopia with their new families. Three more will
return this week and one family will travel at the end of the
week to bring home their son. With these homecomings, there will be 46 children adopted from
Children’s Hope Ethiopia this year. This makes for a total of 56
children home since our first homecoming last August.
Congratulations to them all!
Since the Ethiopian Federal Court is
closed August 6 through early October (the exact date has not
been announced) the courts stopped accepting new adoption cases
after July 4. While the courts will not be accepting new cases
or issuing court dates after July 4, families will still be
receiving referrals. For some families this will create a
slightly longer time between their referral and traveling to
Ethiopia to adopt. Court closure happens every year during the
annual rainy season.
Program Statistics
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36 children home in 2008
as of July 3rd into 29 families - 16 girls and 20 boys
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7 sibling groups adoptions for
2008
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71 dossiers in Ethiopia waiting
for a referral
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21 families with a referral
waiting to travel
Overall
Children’s Hope Ethiopia
Program now has 39 families who have completed their adoptions
and brought home bundles of joy. At the 2008 Annual Reunion,
families gathered for fellowship - and a picture! Click here to
see more photos from this year’s reunion.
If you would like to share your
thoughts, experiences or stories about your adoption, email:
Jennifer Newcomb at
Jennifer.Newcomb@ChildrensHope.net
We would love to post your family
pictures.
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