The Day of the African Child is celebrated every June 16th to honor the memory of hundreds of black children killed in the Soweto uprising of 1976 in South Africa. They day was set aside by the then Organization of the African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU). Here in Portland, [...]

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  The past weekend we watched the Ethiopian-American movie 13 Months of Sunshine. It tells the story of a marriage between an Ethiopian woman who wants a green card to stay legally in the US and an Ethiopian-American man who needs money to start a coffee shop. [...]

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One of the things I would have liked to do when we were in Ethiopia is to know the country, but unfortunately we couldn’t at that moment. Lack of time, money and the main purpose of the trip, to adopt the children, didn’t let us do more than we did. We spent all of our [...]

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There will be a time when the children will ask about their past and we will have to answer with the truth or something as close as we can to it. I’m saying “as close as we can” because we really don’t know the whole truth and never will, so we’ll tell them the part [...]

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