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- EIN 47-2001142
- 312-978-5854
- PO Box 860046 Shawnee KS 66286 USA
- ethiopianadoptionconnection.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children's Rights, Children & Youth, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Family Services, Human Services, Women, Womens Rights
Mission: Beteseb Felega – Ethiopian Adoption Connection is a free, grassroots effort to reconnect family members separated by adoption and to provide compassionate support to adoptees, birth family members, and adoptive parents. Our internet database contains Ethiopian adoption information provided by adopted people/adoptive parents and birth families who are looking for each other.
Results: Beteseb Felega - Ethiopian Adoption Connection started in a midwestern US kitchen with the passion of one adoptive mom, the tech skills of a "birth" mom, and $3,000.00. Today, the organization is registered in Ethiopia, has reunited over 300 adoptees at no cost, provides free services to Ethiopian family members, and maintains a search registry of over 1000 cases. We have three highly trained social workers in Ethiopia and volunteers all over the world lending their skills to the cause. The USA team works tirelessly on a volunteer basis. Adoption is more than joining a family. It is also losing a family or a child, and often, trying to find them later in life. Adoptees and birth families deserve lifelong post adoption services. BF-EAC is proud to provide these services ethically and compassionately.
Target demographics: Ethiopian adoptees and birth families
Direct beneficiaries per year: 300+ adoptees and birth families
Geographic areas served: Ethiopia and any country to which children were adopted
Programs: Some of the many things we offer are an Ethiopian adoption database search registry, post adoption support for to Ethiopian birth families provided by trained social workers, search and reunion services for adoptees and adoptive parents, culturally competent communication assistance for adoptees and birth families in Ethiopia, and DNA testing assistance.