SOS Enfants Ethiopie was created over 20 years ago in 1989 by Jacqueline and Yves Ferez. This NGO, whose goal is to help orphaned and abandoned children, had originally built an orphanage to accommodate around fifty children in Addis Ababa.
SOSEE has been able to help more and more needy children. Today SOSEE includes orphanages, learning centers, cereal and horticultural farms and about fifteen admission centers located throughout the country.
SOS website is really complete for future parents and donators, there is a lot information about Ethiopia, orphanage center etc... But there is nothing about a concrete approach of adoption... Who can adopt? How... ? adoption procedure...
Our blog is maybe a complement of this website, let's have some advices...
Legal Policy:
(http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/enjeux-internationaux/adoption-internationale-2605/comment-adopter-a-l-etranger/les-fiches-pays/fiches-pays-adoption/article/ethiopie)
Ethiopia is not a party to the Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption.
Only married couples are allowed to adopt. Just that one spouse is 25 years of age. Both spouses must consent to the adoption, unless it is the adoption of your spouse's child.
Adopters may, at the time of adoption, have biological or adopted children.
- Anyone aged under 18 whose parents or guardians have consented to the adoption is adoption.
- Any child old enough to express his opinion will be heard by either the judge or by a social worker, before the judgment of adoption.
All adoption records should be in advance, held by a french Agency Approved for Adoption (OAA), proficient in the district of residence of the adoptive parents. He will be responsible for investigating the case with the Ethiopian Ministry of Women (Ministry of Women's Affairs).
