1. AFRICAN CHILD
ADOPTION
Adopting is to take legally as an own
son one that has born of other
parents.

2. The number of the children's adoptions of African
countries has raised in last years. It is more difficult to
adopt children of countries in South America and
Eastern Europe because many have limited or closed
programs of adoption.

3. AFRICA:
It is the third country most filled with Africa
after Nigeria and Egypt. It borders in the
northern part on Eritrea, to the North-East
on Yibuti, in the eastern part on
Somalia, in the southern part on Kenya
and in the western part on Sudan and
Sudan of the South.

4. They will be able to be adopted:
1. Any eighteen-year-old minor person.
2. The father and the mother of the minor will
have to provide that they live and are known.
3. If one of them was not known or incapable to
demonstrate, he will be another progenitor
who grants his assent.

5. 4. If one of the progenitors was not ready to grant his
assent and the minor had ten years of age or more,
the Court will decree the adoption after hearing the
opinion of another progenitor and of the own minor.
5. In the case in which the minor was not capable of
granting his assent, the Court will decree the
agreement of adoption bearing the interest of the
minor in mind.

6. The conditions to adopt:
Letter of motivation of the adoption.
Psico-social Report
Certificate of suitabilityCommitment of follow-up
Certificate of birth
Certificate of marriage, in his case.
Good-conduct certificate.
Medical Certificate of each one of the adopters.
Certificate of work.
Faith of life and condition.
Extract of the income tax return.
Three letters of recommendation
Certificate of residence.
Familiar Photos and of identity.

7. The one who can adopt:
1-Major of 25 years.
2-Only the married pairs can adopt together.
3-The existence of children on the part of the
adopter will not constitute an any obstacle for
the adoption.
4-The difference of maximum age, between
adopted child and adopter.
5-Only the feminine adoption is admitted.

9. Africa is a forgotten continent. The most important problems
are:el AIDS, the hunger, the shortage of the water and the
diseases that provoke a great infant mortality. There exists a
great discrimination of the girls and women. Many children are
orphan because his parents die for the AIDS, or also they are
left by the situation of poverty.

10. DIFFERENCES:
África: EE.UU

11. In Ethiopia many children
exist in the situation of
abandon and orphans.
Groups of brothers, or
sick children. There the
possibility of adoption
does not exist for the
public protocol.