Ethiopian Adoption Story - Our Journey to Josanna - 2010

This is our Ethiopian adoption story. Josanna is our beautiful girl that we adopted from Ethiopia in July 2010. She was 9-months old at the time. We went through Le Toukoul Orphanage in Addis Ababa and Dove Adoptions International. The video documents our journey to get Josanna (her birth name is Mihret). We stayed at YGF private hotel (guest house). The trip and the adoption was a wonderful experience. The full story is here: http://bit.ly/vuyZk8

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[marcimello]

Congrats, guys, Josanna is a lovely addition to your already beautiful family. @9.23, she really looked like a stow-away! :-) Okay, I wanted to type while you guy's video was playing, but could not unpeal my eyes from the beauty of the pics of you guys bonding with your new little bundle, and okay, thanks guys, for making me tear up and cry quite a little bit during the video; just beautiful. And, beautiful friends all way around! God bless your lovely family!

[imcoot]

@marcimello Thank you! Josanna is such a blessing to our family! I still tear up every time I watch this video too as it brings back so many memories.

[lovin2840]

hi, im from ethiopa i was adoped my goal is to find all the people adopting babys and tell you as a child growing up i always wished i could have gone back to ethiopa as a child and learn to speak amharic but i must say my mother took me to a camp in californa called ethiopan heritage camp if you look up the camp amber stime runs it PLEASE look into going to a camp!!!!to let her know and lern her coulture and i was 9 months when i was adopted to so GREAT time to start teaching her her heritage!

[imcoot]

@lovin2840 Thank you for your input. I will certainly look into that camp once our daughter is old enough. We have a local man here from Ethiopia who has offered to teach amharic and I am planning on taking advatage of that in a few years as well. Thank you!

[weberfamily2001]

Beautiful video. We were one of the first families to make two trips under the new law. We met our daughter at Toukoul in late July, and we leave this Friday to bring her home!

[imcoot]

@weberfamily2001 How did your trip go? I am interested to know how the process goes now since all the changes. Congrats!!

[1BigSonicBoom1]

so beautiful. Jah Bless

[lienulka7]

oh my gosh... it makes me cry and smile because it is so beautiful :))))

[anajoy1]

simply beautiful...

[peterdodds1]

For the first time, the extent of fraud, corruption, and child trafficking in international adoption between Guatemala and the United States has been credibly determined. Thousands of previously-unreleased government documents obtained by investigative journalist Erin Siegal from the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala paint a vivid picture of what, exactly, the U.S. government knew about criminal wrongdoing in adoption, including kidnapping, orphan "laundering," and even the murder of birth mothers.

[0102106kls]

ethopians are the children of king solomon god will bless you

[Hope4Africa1]

Oh! She is soo Precious!!!! God Bless You!

[MsMiejon]

So beautiful, both the video and the baby!!!

[waffiki]

congratulation!! is there a follow up after the adoption?