Adopting From Ethiopia

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• Children available for adoption range in age from infants to fifteen years old
• Medical records are available for all children
• Special needs children are also available
• More than one child can be placed at one time
• The average process time is six months to ten months from submission of dossier
• Ethiopia is one of the least expensive programs

Location

• The children come from an orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, and also an orphanage in northern Ethiopia

Reasons for Availability

• Abandonment due to overpopulation
• Lack of good medical care
• Parents cannot care for their children due to severe poverty
• The parents are deceased

Children’s Situation

• The children live in a well-run orphanage run by an older woman, and another orphanage run by a monk

Eligibility for Families

• Only heterosexual applicants are eligible
• Married couples or single female applicants are accepted
• The minimum age for single applicants is twenty-five years old
• A previous divorce is acceptable