ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Four-month-old Thomas Bekele lies in a crib in the Kidane Meheret Children's Home awaiting an HIV test, the result of which will determine his chances of being adopted and ...

Theresa and David Held returned from Ethiopia with a beautiful baby girl, an admiration for her countrymen's scrappy spirit and awareness that Western adoptions help only a tiny fraction of the ...

The measure has also frozen hundreds of pending applications for inter-country adoptions. Ethiopias government has suspended adoptions, leaving dozens of foreign parents unable to unite with orphans ...

CHRISTIANSBURG — On a warm July afternoon Sophia Blaszak rolled down the hill in her backyard alongside two of her sisters. A mundane moment for many, the joyful tumbling marked a milestone the ...

Freya Sergis, a SUNY Cortland senior human service studies major, had an all-American experience at Sandy Creek (N.Y.) High School in Oswego County. She ran cross country and track and field, served ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. -- An Antioch teenager's Sweet 16 birthday won't be a celebration of excess or even focus on her. Instead, it will be used to help orphans half way across the planet. Nubia Wilson ...

STURGIS — Shanto, Ethiopia is considered one of the poorest communities in the world. Meade County Sheriff Ron Merwin joined two of his daughters on a mission trip to improve conditions at an ...