CHSFS-Helping Ethiopia

Our adoption agency, Children's Home Society and Family Services (CHSFS), is based in Minnesota and facilitates both domestic and international adoptions. One of the many reasons we chose this agency is because of the incredible support its Ethiopian program provides to the Ethiopian people. The Program is much bigger than just matching orphaned children to families. They are committed to helping the Ethiopian people and only look at adoption as a last resort. We haven't found an "adoption" agency that begins to compare to what CHSFS is doing in Ethiopia. For example, they are involved with a number of humanitarian activities such as opening schools, opening a mother and child health center, and helping poor families start their own business. Here is some more information showing what CHSFS Ethiopia is all about.

Children's Home Society and Family Services (CHSFS) Ethiopia is a US-based, non- governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to empowering individuals, families and communities in their efforts to create favorable conditions for children.

In Ethiopia, there are nearly 4.5 million orphans that need help. CHSFS-Ethiopia believes that adoption in general and inter-country adoption in particular, is the last resort. We believe that it is only when children cannot be able to survive and grow well if they stay with their birth parents or relatives that they should be adopted.

Our vision is to see an Ethiopia where poverty is alleviated and socio-economic well being of its citizens ensured. Our services: Adoption, Child Care, Family development program, Primary Health Care Training Center, Primary School in Ottoro, Primary school in Addis Ababa, and Maternal & Child Health (MCH) center

Future plans: Pediatrics Emergency Clinic (in Addis Ababa & Hosanna), High Risk Birth Mother's Place (in Hosanna), Primary School (in Mudula and Hosanna), and provision of family planning service (in Hadiya and Kambata Tembaro Zones), building complex.

Our Staff: CHSFS Ethiopia launched its work with only nine employees. It currently has created job opportunities to over 300 Ethiopians. The different sections of the organization are run by professionals. Currently, the organization has over 100 professional staff.