Beteseb Felega ቤተሰብ ፍለጋ - Ethiopian Family Search and Adoption Connection

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Beteseb Felega - Ethiopian Adoption Connection is a grassroots effort to reconnect families. The only organization giving a voice to Ethiopian families.

Restoring family and adoption history through search, reunion, and ongoing connection in Ethiopia. Beteseb Felega - Ethiopian Adoption Connection is a grassroots effort to reconnect family members separated by adoption and to provide compassionate support to adoptees, birth family members, and adoptive parents. Our internet database contains Ethiopian adoption information provided by adopted people/adoptive parents and birth families who are looking for each other. Our goal is to restore family, cultural, and adoption history to adoptees through search, reunion, and ongoing connection in Ethiopia. BF-EAC is the only organization committed to giving a voice to Ethiopian birth families while providing services focused on their well being post adoption. We offer meaningful guidance regarding reunion and ongoing contact with their adopted children; we explain the system through which their children were adopted; and we listen to their stories. Guiding Principles

Ethiopian adoptees and natural families are the focus of our work. Ethiopian adoptees have a right to know their roots, and their histories belong to them. Ethiopian families deserve their own post adoption services on their own terms, independent of their relationship status with adoptive families. Our social workers are devoted to their concerns. Adoptive parents can be a valuable and cherished support system for their adopted child in search and reunion. Adoptive parents of minor children are guardians of precious family history. Adoption search and reunion is a personal matter. We do this work in the name of justice for adoptees and their Ethiopian families.

01/11/2026

Adoptees who are thinking about searching .. you can now access ICAVs updated Contemplating Searching guide ...
Huge thanks to Jonas Haid for his incredible artwork!

Link to free guide in Comments

17/10/2026

An open letter to Hidden Brain about spiritual destiny, rescue narratives, and transnational adoption

16/10/2026

If you are in the USA, take a moment to review and sign this petition from Adoptees For Justice to protect adoptee Judy from being deported. She is now 68 years old and at risk 😢.

“Judy was adopted from Taiwan at age 12 by U.S. citizen parents, including a U.S. Army missionary surgeon. Her adoptive parents believed she would become a U.S. citizen through her adoption. They did not understand that additional steps were required to secure her citizenship. As a result, Judy discovered as an adult that she had never obtained U.S. citizenship. Now 68 years old, she faces the devastating possibility of detention and deportation from her only home to Taiwan, where she does not have a support system and cannot speak the language.”

06/10/2026

When you spend 3 hours with support trying to save $50 per year on a needed tool and still have not made any headway.... Thanks for not standing by your nonprofit discount policy, Zoom and Goodstack. Zoom support leaves something to be desired. Goodstack seems to have none.

04/10/2026

Read about our voluntary Online Adoption Search Databases here! 🇪🇹

Want to know more about our Databases? Feel free to take a look here for many answers.

25/09/2026

Mike, an adoptee without citizenship, voices why citizenship is critical for adoptees: “Deportations of adoptees should not be happening. Adoption impacted every aspect of our life. Citizenship is a key to everything – including peace and security.“
Mike and other adoptees without citizenship struggle daily. Whether it’s accessing jobs or housing, healthcare or driver’s licenses, or being separated from their children and grandchildren, lack of citizenship has left some adoptees abandoned by the US.
It’s time to bring adoptees home and ensure that all legally adopted people have the citizenship their adoption promised.
Sign on to support the Protect Adoptees and American Families Act – federal legislation that would retroactively grant adoptees citizenship, regardless of the year they were born. (bit.ly/Support-PAAF – case-sensitive.)

Mike, an adoptee without citizenship, voices why citizenship is critical for adoptees: “Deportations of adoptees should not be happening. Adoption impacted every aspect of our life. Citizenship is a key to everything – including peace and security.“

Mike and other adoptees without citizenship struggle daily. Whether it’s accessing jobs or housing, healthcare or driver’s licenses, or being separated from their children and grandchildren, lack of citizenship has left some adoptees abandoned by the US.

It’s time to bring adoptees home and ensure that all legally adopted people have the citizenship their adoption promised.

Sign on to support the Protect Adoptees and American Families Act – federal legislation that would retroactively grant adoptees citizenship, regardless of the year they were born. (bit.ly/Support-PAAF – case-sensitive.)

12/09/2026

Memories…

https://www.voanews.com/a/africa_us-based-non-profit-group-reunites-ethiopian-families-separated-adoption/

Driven by her own experience and a desire to help, American Andrea Kelly started Beteseb Felega, an NGO that aims to reconnect Ethiopian adoptees with their birth families

09/09/2026

Lots of good reading here…. The Child Catchers

Over the past several years, Ethiopia has rapidly become one of the top "sending countries" in international adoption: the number of children sent abroad has recently grown from a few hundred to...

27/08/2026

Wow, I had the most interesting experience just now. There is a person who I worked with for a while at the beginning of this organization. She didn’t contribute much.

Tonight she was telling me that I (Andrea) should “work with other people more” and help others start similar organizations. Yet, when i tried to work with her 12 years ago, she facilitated me personally getting swindled out of $6000 of my own money by an org in Wolayta that was run by her friends (who I also tried to work with, which is how they stole from me). This was at the beginning and it was on me personally.

So, I worked with her early on and learned that people by and large cannot be trusted. I lost $6000, after all. And this is the person who is now telling me to work with other people. It’s mind blowing. When I brought up the lack of time for that, still, I am wrong for “not working with others.” I guess she is pi**ed that I didn’t continue working with her?! Risky!!

The thing about volunteering is that people begin to expect you to do everything. They feel that they own you and are entitled to your time. Entitled enough to tell you how to spend your volunteer your time.

I will share in PM who this is with whoever wants to know. She said I could post it but I am not actually that mean.

Onward….

15/08/2026

Search for your Ethiopian Family here!

Search requests received from Ethiopian Families who are looking for their children

Address

Kansas, USA
Addis Ababa

Telephone

+13129785854

Website

http://EthiopianAdoptionConnection.org/

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