Beautiful Children

Ethiopia's children are beautiful...the children we worked with most of the week are all in a transition home. They are awaiting their adoptive parents to come and get them or they are waiting to be matched with a family. The center is home to over 100 children. It is where they spend almost all of their time. They go to school here, they eat all meals here, they sleep in rooms with other children their age and a room "mother". Their days are fairly scheduled and include school, activities, field trips and chores. Children of all ages live here. There were many older (over 7 years old) children and a lot of them are still waiting for families. The facility is very nice by Ethiopian standards. I found it a little like summer camp (minus all the fancy extras, of course). I went to children's camp last year with my kids and it was great fun, but I can tell you.....by the end of just a week of camp, all the kids were ready to go home and sleep in their own beds and see their parents. I know the beautiful children here are looking forward to the day when they too will go home.