Every Child Deserves a Family – Part 1

The overarching message of a conference I attended several months ago was well summed up by this quote used by the organization Give a Child a Family, based in South Africa: “Every child deserves to have an adult who is crazy about them.” Realistically this is saying that a child needs and deserves to have [...]

Enough is Enough

The first Amharic word that I learned upon coming to Ethiopia was “bekah”, which in English means “enough”. Until I learned this word, and learned to say it emphatically, I spent many nights with a sore belly. The culture here is to feed visitors to death. “Eat, eat, eat” and “more, more, more” are the [...]