orphan conference for Aschalew

1. DOMESTIC ADOPTION AS ONE OF THE
BEST RESPONSES TO THE ORPHAN
CRISIS IN ETHIOPIA
Local Home for Each and Every Orphaned and
abedoned child!

2. What is Seed Adoption
Project?
General Objective:
It is a project designed to promote and implment
domestic adoption in Ethiopia. It is all about finding
local and loving homes for orphaned and
abendoned children of Ethiopia
Finding and living the link among:
The Church + The Gospel + Adoption

3. Specific Objectives of the
Project
• Create common understanding on the extent of the
orphan crisis in Ethiopia
• Identify the major root causes for the orphan
crisis
• Revealing our biblical responsibility to
holistically care for and adopt orphaned and
abendoned children
• Design a joint strategy to address the orphan crisis at the
national level through the cooperation of evangelical
churches

4. Specific Objectives
• Develop effective strategies that facilitate holistic
care and local adoption of orphans into Christ-
loving and forever families at a local, grassroots
level
• Build a common forum of evangelical churches to
share information, experiences, and best practices for
sustainable orphan care and support
• Raise financial and non-financial resources locally
for orphan care and adoption

5. Ethiopia – Target country
Why Ethiopia:- 5.5 million orphans
-900,000 HIV/AIDs orphans
- 275,000 HIV positive orphans
-100,000 orphans in Addis
Ababa alone
Existing Capacity: 20% of the total
population are Evangelical Believers
-16 million Evangelical believers attending
35,000 local churches
- Gudifecha practice (traditional and
infromal adoption) among the oromo ethinic
groups that has 38% share of the total
population . We can built on this practice

6. What has Been Done so far through Seed Adoption
Project ?
1. Organized Seed Adoption Ethiopia 2011 workshop
 530 senior pastors and thier respective wives
attended the Seed Adoption workshop)
 The workshop was conducted in three strategic cities
of the country ( Addis Ababa (200) , Nazereth (180)
and Awassa (150)
2. Pre-adoption training organized for 37 committed
adoptive families
3. Home studies conducted for all 37 committed adoptive
families
4. Ten completed domestic adoption applications
submitted to the court and other concerned goverment
offices for review and approval of the same
5. Four of the domestic adoption applications were fully
approved by Enemorena Ener District Cour and child
placements were made accordingly following the court
order

7. Barkot: The First Adopted Child
The First Adoptive Family : Elias
and Haregweyen

8. Konjit: The Second Adopted Child
The Second Adoptive Family
Minas Biruk and Helina Tezera

9. The Third Adopted child - Atatwork
The Third Adoptive Family: Rahel and
Tewodros

10. The Fourth Adopted Child: Ruhama
The First adoptive family adopting
thier second child

11. Three of the adopted children with thier respective families

12. Thank you!!!