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 [...]

American Spirit: For Every Pair of Shoes Sold, TOMS Gives Another Away to a Child in Need (CBS) A child in Soddo, Ethiopia, is getting his first pair of shoes. “We take it for granted in the U.S.,” said Blake Mycoskie, the 33-year-old founder of TOMS Shoes. “You know, I probably have 20, 30 pairs [...]

Tell us briefly about your family and when you adopted. Our journey began in June of 2007 when my husband and I traveled to Ethiopia to pick up our son, Davis.  He was 17 months old, badly malnourished, suffering from Hepatitis A and battling parasites from unclean water.  While the children in his orphanage were [...]

  1. Tell us briefly about your family and when you adopted. My name is Chris Mackenzie (age 40).  My wife, Leigh (age 38), and I have a 7 year old biological son named Julian.  We live in Quincy, IL.  We adopted our daughter, Isabella (age 2), from Ethiopia back in February of 2008.   [...]

Most families who travel to Ethiopia come back a changed person.  The emotional combination of adopting a child and meeting the warm people of Ethiopia is certain to change you.  There is a profound sense of gratitude towards your child’s caregivers, the institutions that make adoption possible as well as the people and culture of [...]