Adoptee Search: Girl Born in 1998 in Tigray Adopted in 1999 to Finland through Missionaries of Charity and Interpedia

Female born in 1998. Found in Tigray Region. Adopted to Finland in 1999 through Missionaries of Charity and Interpedia. She spent part of the time in a foster home in Arat Kilo in Addis.

Submitted by Adopted Person/Adoptee searching for Ethiopian Family

Child’s Information

Age of Child in Photo 3 months
Age of Child in Photo 3 months

Gender of Child female

Ethnicity of Child Tigraway

Year of child’s birth 1998

Ethiopian birth Name of Child Menbere (Membi, Membara)

Name of child at the time of adoption Menbere

Age when child entered care center or orphanage 0-12 months

Year child entered a care center or orphanage 1998

Age of child at adoption 0-12 months

Year child was adopted 1999

Number of siblings/cousins adopted with the child 0

Number of siblings/cousins adopted to other families 0

Adoption Agency Information

Adoption agency through which the child was processed Interpedia (Finland)

Ethiopian representative of adoption agency Bekelech Muluneh

Country to which the child was adopted Finland

Orphanage/care center #1

Orphanage or care center through which the child was processed Missionaries of Charity

Orphanage or care center representative SM. Crispin MC

Region of orphanage or care center Tigray Region

Zone of orphanage or care center Mehakelegnaw Zone

City/Town of orphanage or care center Adwa

Additional information about this orphanage or care center She was there about a month.

Orphanage/care center #2

Orphanage or care center through which the child was processed Missionaries of Charity

Region of orphanage or care center Addis Ababa Region

Zone of orphanage or care center Addis Ababa – Addis Ababa Region

City/Town of orphanage or care center Addis Ababa

Additional information about this orphanage or care center I came there from orphanage in Adwa when I was about one month old. I was there about couple of months.

Information for Abandoned Children

Age of Child in Photo 3 months
Age of Child in Photo
3 months

Region where child was found Tigray Region

Zone where child was found UNKNOWN zone

City/town where child was found UNKNOWN city or town

Additional information that could be useful in making a match With the other adoption papers there were this letter, written by the Sm. Crispin from the Missionaries of the charity. Here it goes:
” Dear friends, this is to certify that the child membara, 2 months old is an orphan child abandoned by her own Mother on the street. Police took her to the Hospital of St. Mary from where child was send to our home in Adwa…”

I moved from orphanage in Addis Ababa to foster home, which was also in Addis Ababa (in Arat Kilo). The “boss” of the foster home was called Tewabech (Mama). There were also this nanny, whose name was Furut. In foster home I was from three months old to nine months old, and after that I was straight adopted to Finland.

In Ethiopia there were two people who handled and were involved a lot in my business, paperstuff and everything, Bekelech Muluneh and her husband Deribe Nesibu. If somebodies would know anything that I don’t I think those two would be the ones.

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