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Our Agency director posted this on our Yahoo group. With her permission, many of us are posting her note on our blogs, in the hope that friends will read it and be able to help.


Dear CCI family,

I am writing to you about a most urgent need that has come to our attention in the past 4 days. As you may know, CCI has received our license to provide adoption services in Ethiopia. We have found an orphanage in the rural western side of the country who has been very excited to work with us on finding homes for their many many orphans. We should be having our first 7 children come home from Ethiopia shortly.. in March or April.

The home where we have been working has been providing housing and school for 159 boys aged 6 and above. These boys are, for the most part, not part of the adoption program, as it is very hard to find homes for boys in this age group. This home had been supported by an American gentleman. This past week, their benefactor has decided to discontinue his support of this orphanage. This leaves the orphanage in an immediate and desperate situation, as they have 159 children to feed! The total running expense of this orphanage is about $8000/month. The food bill is $3000/month. They have immediately let some of the teachers go and they are reducing other staff members. However, they do not have any means to provide for even the basic need of food for these boys! They have asked for our help and we are going to do everything we can to help, but CCI does not have excess income to meet this need.

I am asking that anyone who is interested, to please consider helping us to provide for at least their food needs. The figures are overwhelming but I know that God cares more about this than we do. Please share this need with your friends and family and if God leads you to help us meet this need, it would be a blessing to the children. Funds could be sent to CCI earmarked ETHIOPIAN NEED and you would receive a tax receipt.

Sue Hedberg
Executive Director
Celebrate Children, International, Inc