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 ...

Freya Sergis, a SUNY Cortland senior human service studies major, had an all-American experience at Sandy Creek (N.Y.) High School in Oswego County. She ran cross country and track and field, served ...

CHRISTIANSBURG — On a warm July afternoon Sophia Blaszak rolled down the hill in her backyard alongside two of her sisters. A mundane moment for many, the joyful tumbling marked a milestone the ...

The measure has also frozen hundreds of pending applications for inter-country adoptions. Ethiopias government has suspended adoptions, leaving dozens of foreign parents unable to unite with orphans ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. -- An Antioch teenager's Sweet 16 birthday won't be a celebration of excess or even focus on her. Instead, it will be used to help orphans half way across the planet. Nubia Wilson ...

STURGIS — Shanto, Ethiopia is considered one of the poorest communities in the world. Meade County Sheriff Ron Merwin joined two of his daughters on a mission trip to improve conditions at an ...

CHRIS, THANK YOU. A FIREWORKS STAND IN GREENVILLE IS NOT ONLY HELPING YOU LIGHT UP THE SKY THIS JULY 4TH, BUT IT’S ALSO PROVIDING AID FOR CHILDREN IN AFRICA. RASHAD WILLIAMS SPOKE WITH THE COUPLE WHO ...