No Words

The photo is the Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine by Kevin Carter. The picture depicts a child crawling towards an United Nations food camp and a vulture waiting for the child to die. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer.

Three months later the photographer committed suicide.

What can one do?

Ethiopia Adoption Alert

May 13, 2009


Adoptions of Abandoned Children Halted by Ethiopian Court:
The Ethiopian First Instance Court has temporarily stopped accepting cases involving abandoned children from orphanages in Addis Ababa, citing concern over a recent increase in the number of abandoned children being brought for adoption. The number of abandoned children from orphanages in Addis Ababa has grown dramatically in recent months and Ethiopian authorities have become aware of possible cases of unethical practices associated with some of them.

Currently neither MOWA nor the First Instance Court are accepting any abandonment case from any orphanages in Addis Ababa pending an inquiry.

Please continue to monitor adoption.state.gov for updated information on Ethiopia.

Round Two

Today I received my second set of shots. Hep B, Typhoid, Tetanus and Meningitis. I can barely type.