Dear David:
We just came back from the orphanage….we met with one of the people in the admin. Office. Wonderful young man who seemed to really love the children. In this location they have 36 kids. 4 of them are infants. He gave us a tour around the place. All these kids were in an adoption program (like our cafac one) ‘til they were found out to have aids. This organization picks up those kids and looks after them and most of them will get adopted eventually. US and Spain are the only countries that allow kids with aids to be adopted. ( Ethiopian government provides aids medication to its citizens which I think is provisions from US) Anyway, we met a little baby boy who was found somewhere on the street abandon at an age of 1 month. Now he is 3months and waiting for his parents to pick him up. We coloured pages out of the colouring books with the kids and they were trying to teach us amharic as well as practice their english. Erik and I are trying really hard to practice our amharic and people seem to be very happy to help. So, back to the Ahope orphanage….We’ll go and see the program co-ordinator on Monday morning and discuss with them about how we could help out. I think next time we go there we’ll bring some beads and string for all the kids to make some bracelets with.
Love Satu
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Satu and Erik I like the beads and string ideas. Go shopping in the local market to see what supplies are readily available to continue this idea.
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