The Bakers Adoption Journey To Ethiopia: 1st day of school!!!

Here are a few pictures of the kids first day of school. Mom is one happy camper. STRUCTURE IS GOOD!!!!!!!

Why Ethiopia

population of nearly 75 million
4.3 million orphans
46% of population is between 0-14 years old
median age is 16.8
79 newborn deaths/1000 live births
life expectancy is 55.8 yrs.
42.7% of those 15yrs and older can read & write
47% of population lives below the poverty level
1 in 10 children die before their 1st birthday
1 in 6 children die before age 5
malnutrition is the underlying cause of more than 1/2 of all child deaths
1 physician for every 34,988 people
1 in 4 women dies in childbirth pregnancy-related illness
50% of children attend primary school (k-3)
88% will never attend secondary school
average class size in govt. schools is 85-100 children
estimated # of street children nationwide:100,000; in Addis: 40,000

Adoption Timeline

3-25-2010 Application mailed
4-7-2010 Application accepted by AWAA
4-7-2010 Signed up for Hague
4-8-2010 Sent program agreements & 1st program fee
4-12-2010 Introduced to Social Worker
4-13-2010 Introduced to Family Coordinator
4-15-2010 Anna completed Hague
4-22-2010 Brian completed Haugue
5-12-2010 Home Study paperwork overnighted
6-5-2010 1st Home Study
6-9-2010 2nd homestudy
6-14-2010 3rd homestudy
8-4-2010 Received notarized homestudy
8-5-2010 Mailed I-600A
8-30-2010 We make 1 last attempt to make Rwanda work~didn't work~wasn't God's plan for us
8-31-2010 Rwanda no longer accepts dossiers
8-31-2010 We officially resigned from the Rwanda program
8-31-2010 made request with AWAA to switch to Ethiopia
9-16-2010 USCIS fingerprint screening appt
9-21-2010 Officially accepted into the Ethiopia program
9-30-2010 Received amended homestudy
10-11-2010 Fedex amended homestudy to USCIS
11-12-2010 Received I-171H
11-15-2010 Dossier to AWAA
11-19-2010 DTE
9-7-2011 changed age to 0-12 mths
2-15-2012 Jacoby's Birthday
3-7-2012 ???? mystery excited day
4/26/2012 Overnighted updated Home Study to USCIS
5-3-2012 Received new 171H
5-18-2012 5am (Addis time) Zeleke found Jacoby
6-28-2012 Became #1
7-11-2012 On Deck Email
11-27-2012 @ 11:23am Referral Received
12-18-2012 received MOWCYA court date
1/11/2013 MOWCYA court date
2-7-2013 Positive MOWCYA letter/ assigned court date
3-1-2013 Court date - passed!
3-27-2013 Submitted to Embassy
4-1-2013 Embassy requested Finder interview
4-4-2013 Finder interview 7:30am (Addis time)
4-4-2013 1:47am (local time) cleared Embassy
4-4-2013 6:21am (local time) issued embassy appointment
4-9-2013 Gotcha Day!
4-11-2013 1pm (Addis time) embassy appointment
4-13-2013 6pm Home at last!

The Bakers Adoption Journey To Ethiopia

Monday, August 23, 2010

1st day of school!!!

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