Well, I'm hoping that today was our last time participating in the waiting family conference call held each month by our agency. The purpose of the call is to help families understand more about the process and receive answers to common and sometimes very specific questions.
The item that held my interest the most was the discussion about power outages in Ethiopia. Apparently the power has been off quite a bit lately and this is affecting all of us. For example, the Courts and MOWA (Ethiopian dept. that handles the adoptions)can't process paperwork and our agency's in-country staff is limited in their abilities as well. This trickles down to families here in the States because information about court dates, updates on referred children, and information (i.e. medical) about children awaiting referral isn't readily available because of the outages overseas which limit internet access. There haven't been any referrals mentioned on our agency's Yahoo board in 2 weeks now, so the outages probably account for this to at least some extent. Hopefully the referrals will come in a large batch very soon!
Once we receive a referral, we will stop participating in the waiting families' call and move on to the waiting to travel monthly call - how exciting!
The item that held my interest the most was the discussion about power outages in Ethiopia. Apparently the power has been off quite a bit lately and this is affecting all of us. For example, the Courts and MOWA (Ethiopian dept. that handles the adoptions)can't process paperwork and our agency's in-country staff is limited in their abilities as well. This trickles down to families here in the States because information about court dates, updates on referred children, and information (i.e. medical) about children awaiting referral isn't readily available because of the outages overseas which limit internet access. There haven't been any referrals mentioned on our agency's Yahoo board in 2 weeks now, so the outages probably account for this to at least some extent. Hopefully the referrals will come in a large batch very soon!
Once we receive a referral, we will stop participating in the waiting families' call and move on to the waiting to travel monthly call - how exciting!
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