Second Day-Covenant Orphanage

On Tuesday, April 20th, Pochi came to get us and bring us to Covenant Orphanage and then we were to go on to Ambo for Tamirat to say good-bye to his mother. The van was full! The pastor from Covenant church came, the director of the orphanages, and Ben and Dennis from WI wanting to meet 2 girls Dennis and his wife were looking to adopt. They were in Ethiopia with Josh, son-in-law and step-son, who was picking up his baby. It was the classic "Three Men and a Baby".

We traveled west, up into the hills. This is a typical house outside of the city and in the villages. They use stripped young trees to make the house frame and cover it with mud, which consist of red soil, chaff, and water.



This is a funeral we passed.


Covenant:



A second kitchen out back in a separate building where they can build fires and cook the Ethiopian dishes:



This is the other kitchen:



These are the last of the children in the orphanage. They all have families. One of these girls is from the sister orphanage. They are such beautiful, sweet girls. Good thing for all the paperwork or I would have asked one of them to come home with me.



This is the back part of the living room.



Tamirat ended up with Alex's camera. He loves taking pictures!



The start of the "Coffee Ceremony" and I will put that in a post by itself.



He is a cute boy!



This was a building next to Covenant Orphanage. You can see how they build their houses.



Our driver doing some repairs on the playgound epuipment.



Time to say good-bye and head over to Ambo.