Open Hearts for Orphans is a Christian non-profit organization dedicated to helping orphans around the world through adoption grants, providing resources for adoptive families, and providing donations to orphanages. There are millions of orphans around the world who need loving homes. Our mission is threefold: Provide information about the adoption process. Raise money for adoption [...]

y Barry Malone and Tsegaye Tadesse ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia is pinning its hopes on a rebound in harvests and prices for its crucial coffee sector to boost export earnings to $2.9 billion in 2009/2010, the trade minister said on Wednesday. Coffee accounted for some 60 percent of Ethiopia’s foreign exchange revenue in the [...]

Nov 30, 2009 (ADDIS ABABA) – A new global economic forecast released by the economist magazine has placed Ethiopia as the 5th fastest economy growing country for the year 2010. The UK-based magazine predicts Qatar as the top fastest growing economies in the world, followed by china, Congo, Turkmenistan and Ethiopia. The magazine argued that, [...]

Twenty-five years ago the Christmas season was punctuated by worldwide attention focused on Ethiopian famine. Irish rock star Bob Geldof organized at who’s who of pop icons to record “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and released it in November 1984. The single and subsequent Live Aid concerts the following summer drew money and attention to [...]

BAKO, Ethiopia – In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland. “Why Attractive?’’ reads one glossy poster with photos of green fields and a map outlining swaths of the country available at bargain-basement prices. “Vast, fertile, irrigable land at low rent. [...]

1. Tell us a bit about your family. We are Craig and Elizabeth of Aurora, IL.  We will be married 7 years this October and we have three beautiful children.  Cole (bio) is 5, Caroline (bio) is 3 1/2, and Myles is 10 months, and we brought him home from Ethiopia just this past June. We [...]

1. Tell us a little bit about your family. We have been married for 14 years and live in the Midwest part of the US.  I am teacher and Bill is a network engineer.  We have 4 kids, 2 bio boys, AW who is 9 and in 4th grade and XW who is 5 and [...]

 A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will eventually become a new ocean or sea, researchers now confirm. The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005. Some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied. A new [...]

Residents of Addis Ababa are expressing discontent at the disruption in drinking water supply in many parts of the city. Hayahulet, Megenagna, Gerji, Wefcho Bet, Yerer, Gofa and Woyra Sefer are some of the areas which are hard hit by the disruption. Residents in the Woyra Sefer locality told The Reporter that they get tap [...]