Wrapped in a bundle of warm blankets and lucky to be alive, four-month-old Thomas Bekele still faces a precarious future. Orphaned three weeks ago when his mother died from tuberculosis, he is one of ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Four-month-old Thomas Bekele lies in a crib in the Kidane Meheret Children's Home awaiting an HIV test, the result of which will determine his chances of being adopted and ...

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 9, 2006–Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO) has received a grant of $80,000 from Keep A Child Alive (KACA). The money is earmarked for WWO’s medical programs that provide ...

Addis Ababa — The United for Change Integrated Training and Development Organization (UCIDO) a humanitarian organization operating under the motto: Ethiopians for Ethiopians on Saturday arranged ...

A Bay Area teenager donated her sweet 16 birthday money to help orphans in Ethiopia after witnessing extreme poverty during a trip to the country. A Bay Area teenager donated her sweet 16 birthday ...

new york - As the number of international adoptions by Americans plummets, Ethiopia is emphatically bucking the trend, sending record numbers of children to the United States while winning praise for ...

You may recognize Andrew Garfield from The Social Network or the upcoming film The Amazing Spider-Man. What you may not know about this kind-hearted Brit is that like many of TakePart's favorite ...

SHERWOOD -- A very difficult time for a Sherwood woman changed her life and led her eventually to an African country where she could help abandoned children living in the most desperate of ...

Ethiopia will face a collapse in “social services, governance and safety nets” within a decade because of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) has warned. Traditional ways of coping ...