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Adoption

A post concerning adoption agencies.

Ethiopia faces a famine and healthcare crisis that has orphaned over 5 million children. Professional photographer Tyler Stableford volunteered to film this documentary for the child-welfare agency Wide Horizons For Children, which works to empower Ethiopia's hardest-hit communities.

The video is a pro bono project by: Crispin Porter + Bogusky; Coupe Studios Music and Sound Design; Fletcher Wilson, M.D.; song "Home" by Bole 2 Harlem; song "African Rhythm" by Eddie Alonso; songs "Mbria-Kosmedla" and "Ethiopia-Ker-Kerane" by Beacon Street Studios.

Click here to watch the 7 minute video.

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Written by Tony on
Ethiopia faces a famine and healthcare crisis that has orphaned over 5 million children. Professional photographer Tyler Stableford volunteered to film this documentary for the child-welfare agency Wide Horizons For Children, which works to empower Ethiopia's hardest-hit communities. The video is a pro bono project by: Crispin Porter + Bogusky; Coupe Studios Music and Sound Design; Fletcher Wilson, M.D.; song "Home" by Bole 2 Harlem; song "African Rhythm" by Eddie Alonso; songs "Mbria-Kosmedla" and "Ethiopia-Ker-Kerane" by Beacon Street Studios. Click here to watch the 7 minute video. Read Full Story
Written by JoanneGreco on
This Father’s Day Weekend (June 20-21), Wendy’s is helping consumers treat Dad and help foster children at the same time. Wendy’s third annual Father’s Day Frosty Weekend provides an easy and tasty way to support the cause of foster care adoption and help the more than 129,000 children in the U.S. who are waiting for the love of forever families. During Father’s Day Weekend, Wendy’s will donate 50¢ from every Frosty product sold to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (DTFA), a national, non-profit public charity dedicated to dramatically increasing the number of adoptions of foster children in North America. Also customers can stop ... Read Full Story
Written by opie984 on
I have known for some time that there was discussion and hope to bring in a branch of the Bethany Christian Services into Pensacola, Florida. Bethany is touted to be one of the largest adoption agencies, if not the largest, in the United States. The services that Bethany provides truly are amazing. Not only does Bethany deal extensively with adoptions, but they also provide post-adoptive services only to families as well as churches and birth families. They also offer free counseling to pregnant women needing answers about parenting, adoption, and abortion. There is something that makes Bethany stand out to me though—they are not ... Read Full Story
Written by carlduckett on
As an associate pastor I am always looking for effective ministry opportunities that truly change the lives of people. As a father who has seen the wonderful blessing that adoption is first hand, I can think of no more powerful ministry than helping a loving Christian family share themselves with a child who needs the love that family provides. What better way for the local church to minster Read Full Story
Written by JoanneGreco on
It’s no secret around here that I am a big supporter of the work The Dave Thomas Foundation For Adoption does. Now you can help and it won’t cost you a thing. Create and send a free fathers days e-card, or choose a celebrity created one through their site Frosty Card and Wendy’s will [...] Read Full Story
DUBLIN, Ohio, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- All children deserve a loving, permanent home. This is the premise of National Adoption Awareness Month, founded in 1990 to increase the number of children adopted from U.S. foster care and celebrate the unique joys of creating families through foster care adoption.  
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DUBLIN, Ohio, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Recognizing that adoptions are more successful when families have access to post-adoption resources, two organizations have partnered to offer a guide for parents. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, with the support of Jockey International, Inc.'s corporate citizenship initiative, Jockey Being Family(R), has developed a new free resource booklet, A Step-by-Step Guide to Post-Adoption.  
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia said Thursday it needs emergency food aid for 6.2 million people, an appeal that comes 25 years after a devastating famine compounded by communist policies killed 1 million and prompted one of the largest charity campaigns in history.  
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Ethiopia needs an additional $175 million this year to help feed 6.2 million people ravaged by prolonged drought and crop failure, about 8 per cent of the population, the United Nations humanitarian arm reported today, citing the Government and aid ...  
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The Ethiopian government says it needs emergency food aid for 6.2 million people, with the state minister for agriculture and rural development, Mitiku Kassa, asking for more than $121 million. This follows an appeal in January to help feed 4.9 million of Ethiopia’s 85 million people. A prolonged drought that has hit much of the [...]  
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In 2008, Ethiopia was the 4th most popular international adoption program among Michigan adoptive families. In 2009, the program is expected to increase it's ranking because of recent problems with adoptions from Guatemala. Many hopeful adoptive ...  
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Echoing the Ethiopian government’s recent call for food aid, British diplomat, Paddy Ashdown, has requested the international community’s urgent assistance in preventing a looming humanitarian crisis. Reuters reports that 160,000 tons of food are ...  
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It is hard to talk about Ethiopia these days in non-apocalyptic terms. Millions of Ethiopians are facing their old enemy again for the third time in nearly forty years. The Black Horseman of famine is stalking that ancient land. A year ago, Meles ...  
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Ethiopia's ruling party and three opposition groups have agreed on a Code of Conduct for parliamentary elections scheduled for next May. Other opposition parties that boycotted the Code of Conduct talks will still be bound by the rules. Ethiopia's ...  
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