Injera is cooked at the orphanage
. Injera is the Ethiopian staple bread, its thin crepe like flat bread that the dishes such as Wots, Tibs and Fitfit are served on. To eat the dishes pieces of injera are torn off and used to scoop up mouthful. Injera is eaten daily in virtually every household, and cooking it requires considerable time and resources.
Injera is unique to Ethiopia, from its distinct taste and main ingredient the Teff cereal. Teff is the tiniest cereal and used as a staple food only in Ethiopia (in other parts of the world its associated with common grass). Teff is believed to have originated in Ethiopia between 4000 and 1000 BC. Teff seeds were discovered in a pyramid thought to date back to 3359 BC. http://www.ethiopianrestaurant.com/injera.html
A worker hangs laundry at the Orphanage
Jennifer Mann, Salt Lake, photographs students sponsored by the Children of Ethiopia's Education Fund, at Queen of Sheba Academy in Addis Ababa, for their sponsors back in America. COEEF sponsors more than 700 students to go to school in Ethiopia. For more info: http://www.coeef.org/
Sponsored students wait for their turn to be photographed.
Total number of people that have died of AIDS painted on a mural in the background. More than 25,000,000 people have died of AIDS in Africa.
Although the babies in Ethiopian orphanages are placed very quickly, older kids sometimes wait as long as 6 years for a family to adopt them.
Going away party for the adopted kids leaving the orphanage to their new home in America.
A woman hangs newly died silk, at the Sabahar, silk shop in Addis Ababa,
Babies Ethiopian orphanages are placed with families very easily. The older kids are much harder to place.
Injera is cooked at the orphanage
A worker hangs laundry at the Orphanage
They say Shashemene is the Spiritual Home of the Rastafarians.
Animals, and people walking in the road make for an exciting ride, when you are traveling in a 25-year-old Toyota van at 140kph, and the driver is chewing chat and texting on his cell phone.
Kids in the orphanage grabbed my video camera, and filmed their friends, and fought over it for a while, but it still works.
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Kristie holds Leditu for the first time, just minutes after arriving at the orphanage, in Addis Ababa.
