Adoption hotel

Jessie and have spoken a lot about what other things we can be doing while we are here, although this country can be overwhelming at times we often find ourselves wishing that we had more ways we can be a direct help while we are here, we have found that having four kids is somewhat [...]

Visitors

We are enjoying having Lale and his wife staying with us for a few days. Lale has finished with the police papers and brought them to Addis for us to start the adoption process. We are very excited to have that part done. It means that we can really start getting to work on the [...]

Inspired

I am sorry, we are having trouble with this post.  For some reason it will not put the whole thing up here.  I am going to try it again….
I got an email a week or so ago from Andrea, she explained that her family is in the process of adopting a sibling set of three [...]

The Supernova Africa Cold

I just received an email that I wanted to jump on here and tell you about but first let me give you a bit of the setting when i received it and you will see why it ment so much to me. Today was the day that we said goodbye to Abrehame, he [...]

Police letters and other good news

I mentioned a while back that the government was asking that we provide a letter from the local police on each child certifying their situation with the tribes.  Today was the day that we finally got to sit in front of the police and work through the wording on the letters.  We should have them [...]

More kids…

I spoke with Lale yesterday for quite a while, he was telling me all about the festival we hosted in the tribes. The goal of the festival was to speak with them about the mingi practice and our orphanage.  More than 60 government officials and tribal leaders came, plus quite a few tribal members.   Lale [...]

News from the zoo

It’s me Jessie. I wanted to update you on things, I have sat down to try several times but as you can imagine, it has been a bit crazy here at the Benkert house with five kids under the age of eight but we are hanging in there. Abrehame is doing good. We had some [...]

Next question…

Well first let me tell you a bit about the ride; Jessie called last night and she said they are doing good. Abrehame slept the entire trip, which is good for travel purposes but not a very good sign for a 1 year old…  Later this evening he will be safely in  an excellent hospital [...]

New video done…

We have a new video done!  Check it out and let us know what you think and send it around to your friends.

Drawn From Water, Adopt from Drawn From Water on Vimeo.

Abrehame

I finally got the update on Abrehame and he seems to be improving, he has not thrown up all day and has been moving around the house a bit, its a major improvement considering he has been in bed for the past six days! Jessie is still going to bring him here to [...]