© Eric Lafforgue
2009
www.africancradle.org
Welcome
As I sit down to write this welcome page I am filled with a great deal of gratitude.
I am grateful to all the families attending this year’s camp. Whether it’s your first time
or you have been attending this heritage camp for many years, your presence shows
your desire, as parents of Ethiopian adoptees, to keep your children connected to their
birth culture.
I am grateful for Dr. Janet Helms and Dr. Maryam Jemigan for coming to dialogue with
us about race and our racial identity through a series of workshops. This is a topic
that isn’t much talked about. The more we understand our own racial identity, which
encompasses our prejudices, the better friends, parents and citizens of the world
we will be. My hope is with the knowledge and the tools we gain from these two
presenters we will begin to have meaningful dialogue with our children, their teachers
and friends.
If you look at the program booklet closely, this year more than ever we have many
Ethiopian volunteers. A few, such as Dr. Adu, who at the end of camp last year humbly
asked me to invite him again next year, Habtu, who only has missed one camp in six
years, and our childcare givers, Zenebech and Zinash, are familiar faces. The rest are
new friends. They come with willing hearts to share and teach about the culture and
the country they love.
And of course I am grateful for the children. I look forward to getting to know the
new little ones and hearing about how the older ones are doing.
Amber Stime, MSW
Director, African Cradle, Inc.
“I love the Ethiopian Heritage Camp and can’t wait to be a part of this special gathering.
I feel like the whole year I am lost in my own mind until I come to Camp. The Heritage
Camp reminds me of where I came from and to be proud of my Ethiopian brothers and
sisters. We are beautiful people seeking education, love and family so we can better help
our homeland. We all have come a long way and yet have endless miles ahead of us in a
far away place. God bless.”
- A young adult
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All About Tes’ Life
By Tesfaye Meles Johanson, written at age 10
When I was a kid – I know that I am still a kid, but I mean
when I was smaller than I am now, I lived in Ethiopia in a
place called Elowaha. It is a little village about one thousand
miles from the capital city, Addis Ababa. There are about
200 people consisting of the Afars and the Amharas. I am an
Amhara. My dad was from Tigrey and my mom was from Bati,
so she is an Amhara too. I had so much fun growing up in the
village. There were so many things to do with my friends
We used to go deer hunting a lot. And sometimes we’d be gone for days. We would
make a bed out of leaves and sleep on the ground. We could hear the hyenas and
the lions growling. We would make a fire, which would keep them away from us. My
friends and me would lie on our backs and look up into the sky to see thousands of
bright stars and talk about what we are going to do when we grow up. I always wished
that I would go to school or travel to America. I would think about America because
my dad would talk about it.
I used to sing songs with my sister. I also used to play soccer with my friends a lot. We
had a competitive team and we used to play other kids living in the village. We did not
have a real soccer ball so we make it out of socks and plastic. We also blew up balloons
and used old strings from blankets and wrapped them around the balloon. It worked
perfectly. But, sometimes because of the rocks in the desert the balloon would pop. I
bet it would work okay here because we have soccer fields with grass.
We played a game called hiding and seek, but it is different than the hide and seek
game here. There are about fifty kids that play this game at night. We play at night
because it is dark, but we have the moonlight, which helps us see very well.
Hadi-hadi is another game we played, kind of like tackle football, but you don’t have
a ball. You run fast and tackle the person down. So, half the kids would run and the
other half would chase and try to tackle and then we would fight. It was so much
fun. We never hurt each other, but we played pretty rough. We played rough in
soccer, too. But we didn’t have shoes. Our feet were really tough and could take the
rocks and hard dirt.
We celebrated many holidays and my favorite was Christmas. My friends and me
would go from house to house and sing for the people. Sometimes they would give us
money. And then we would split up the money and spend it on food and toys.
My dad was a great man. One of the many things that he did was to buy and sell goats.
I would help him by watching over the goats and make sure that they were okay. I
would take them to find water for a drink, and then go back to the nearest tree where
I would take a rest in the shade. The goats would also rest in the shade. My dad and I
would take the goats to another town when they were ready for sale. I liked going with
my dad. We would have lots of fun and eat at the local restaurant.
I have many memories of my childhood. I miss my village and my family. I plan to go
next summer to visit them.
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Janet Helms, Ph. D.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Janet E. Helms is the Augustus Long Professor in
the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and
Educational Psychology and Director of the Institute
for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture at
Boston College. She is President of the Society of
Counseling Psychology (Division 17 of the American
Psychological Association [APA]). Dr. Helms is a
Fellow in Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) and
Division 45 (Ethnic Diversity) of APA. In addition, she
is a member of the Association of Black Psychologists.
Dr. Helms serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Psychological Assessment
and the Journal of Counseling Psychology and is on the Counsel of Research Elders
of the Journal of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. She has written
over sixty empirical and theoretical articles and four books on the topics of racial
identity and cultural influences on assessment and
counseling practice.
Her Books include A Race Is a Nice Thing To Have
(Microtraining Associates) and (with Donelda
Cook) Using Race and Culture in Counseling and
Psychotherapy: Theory and Process (MA: Allyn &
Bacon).
Dr. Helms’ work has been acknowledged with
awards that include an engraved brick in Iowa State
University’s Plaza of Heroines, and the “Distinguished
Career Contributions to Research” award from the
Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority
Issues, awarded at the APA convention. In 1991, she was the first annual recipient of
the “Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship in Professional Psychology.”
Columbia University Teachers College inaugurated this award in her honor. Dr.
Helms was the recipient of the 2002 Leona Tyler Award awarded by Division 17
in recognition of an outstanding research career, the American Psychological
Association’s Awards for “Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in
Psychology” (2006) and the Award for “Distinguished Contributions to Research in
Public Policy” (2008). She was a recipient of the Association of Black Psychologists’
2007 Award for Distinguished Psychologist.
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Professor
Adugnaw Worku
Speaker
Adugnaw Worku writes, “My name is
Adugnaw Worku and I was born and
brought up in northwest Ethiopia. My
parents were peasant farmers like everyone
else in the area and I was destined to
continue the family tradition as a country
farmer. From age six to ten, my assignment
was taking care of goats, sheep, and cattle.
And from age ten to fourteen and half,
I worked side by side with my father preparing and plowing the family farm and
growing various crops we needed to live on. We also cultivated cash crops in order to
buy some necessities. We had to buy salt, shirts and pants, and some farm equipment
in the open market and crops like oil seeds, cotton, and spice made it possible for us to
do so.”
Professor Worku received his elementary and high
school education in Ethiopia and his Bachelor’s Degree
in History and Education from Avondale College in
Australia. Mr. Worku earned an M.A. in History and
an M.A. in Education from Andrews University in
Michigan, and a M.L.S. (Masters in Library Science)
from University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Professor Worku is currently Library Director and
Professor at Pacific Union College in Northern
California. He is married to Zewuditu Yimer, a nurse.
They have two boys – Daniel, age 23, a college
graduate with a finance major now working for New York Life, and Tadele, age 22, who
graduated from college as class president with a marketing degree and who currently
looking for a job. Both of Mr. Worku’s sons have agreed to present with their father and
will perform for us.
Mr. Worku has written two books and numerous articles in Amharic. He has recorded
three CDs and one DVD. He plays three Ethiopian musical instruments and speaks and
performs to Ethiopian audiences around the United States.
We are very happy to have Professor Worku with us!
www.adugnawworku.com
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Dr. Getie Gelaye
Speaker
Dr. Getie Gelaye is a professor in the
Department of African and Ethiopian
Studies, Asia-Africa-Institute, at Hamburg
University
We are truly honored to have a scholar
of Dr. Gelaye’s stature sharing with
us his research on the significance of
Amharic oral poetry traditions among
the rural peoples of Ethiopia. For over
15 years, Dr. Gelaye has been collecting,
translating, and analyzing these important
oral documents of events in Ethiopia’s
history, including resistance to the Italian
occupation of 1936. In addition to sound
recordings of local performances, Dr.
Gelaye has interviewed the singers and
poets who preserve Ethiopian heritage in their praise and historical poems.
Dr. Gelaye received his BA in Ethiopian Languages and Literature and his MA in Social
Anthropology from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia where he also taught for over 7
years. His PhD is from Hamburg University where he currently teaches. Dr. Gelaye has
studied all over the world, with visiting fellowships in Leiden, The Netherlands, Rome,
London, Zurich, Paris, Cape Town, Banjul, etc. and has done anthropological fieldwork
among the rural Gojjam in northwestern Ethiopia between 1992 and 2000.
“What I like most about the Ethiopian Heritage Camp is that it makes me feel
at home. I think the camp is good for all people, especially those who do not live
near lots of African people, so they can learn the culture.”
- A Child
“Thanks again for such a fabulous camp experience last week! Our family is
still talking of little else (as well as singing “Old McDonald had a Farm” in
Amharic whenever anyone will listen!)”
- A Parent
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Dr. Maryam M.
Jernigan
Speaker
Dr. Maryam M. Jernigan obtained her
Bachelors degree in Psychology from
Fisk University, Masters from Vanderbilt
University, and is a recent graduate of the
Counseling Psychology program at Boston
College. As a student Dr. Jernigan was
recognized and rewarded for her numerous
academic accomplishments, which include
graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa
Cum Laude from Fisk, the Aubrey Award for
most promising counseling student from
Vanderbilt, and the Donald J. White Teaching
Fellow Excellence Award at Boston College.
As a doctoral student Ms. Jernigan worked
consistently with the Institution for the
Study and Promotion of Race and Culture (ISPRC) under the direction of Dr. Janet Helms.
Currently, Dr. Jernigan is the Director of the Jernigan Sankofa Program – Youth
Empowerment Groups. The Jernigan Sankofa Program utilizes group intervention
techniques to help Black and Latina girls in predominantly White schools develop
their social and political awareness of threats to their academic achievement and to
promote positive racial identity development in null or hostile racial environments. Dr.
Jernigan’s development of the Sankofa Program earned her the Ford Foundation Diversity
Dissertation Fellowship 2007. Additionally, her development of interventions dedicated
to facilitating the positive racial identity development of adolescents of Color has been
recognized through her award as the 2008 APA/APAGS Distinguished Graduate Student in
Professional Psychology and 2008 Many Faces of Counseling Psychology Honor.
In 2008 Dr. Jernigan founded Jernigan & Associates Psychological and Educational
Consulting Firm, LLC in an effort to expand the development and implementation of
culturally appropriate psycho-educational youth interventions. In the fall Dr. Jernigan will
serve a Post Doctoral Fellow at Children’s Hospital Boston in Adolescent Medicine.
“Camp is incredible and my children have lifetime memories; thank you so
much for allowing us the opportunity to participate!”
- A Parent
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Frew Tibebu
Speaker
Frew Tibebu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His father
was a military officer under Emperor Haile Selassie. His
mother worked for the telephone company. Frew had
what he considers a normal childhood.
In 1974 the Emperor was overthrown. Shortly after
that, the Derg launched a mandatory National Literacy
Campaign along with a land reform program; all university
students and high school students from 11th grade up
were required to participate. At the time, he was a senior
in high school and was sent about 300 km south of Addis Ababa to a place called
Seqoru, in Jima province. This was his first encounter with farmers, peasants and life
in the countryside. He remained there roughly seven months before returning home,
after which, Frew joined a youth resistance group against the military regime. His
group stayed active in organizing and passing anti-government literature for a short
while until four of them were arrested. About this time (1977-1978), in order to crush
the resistance, the military government led by Mengistu Hailemariam conducted what
was known as the Red Terror. This operation resulted in the killings and disappearances
of half a million people, thus marking the worst atrocity in Ethiopian history.
Frew was freed from prison after being detained for 1½ years. His father, however,
began serving a 10 year prison sentence around this time after a military court martial.
Within 3 months of Frew’s release, he rode a train to Dire Dawa, a southeastern town
bordering Somalia & Djibouti. From there, with the help of a paid escort, he fled on
foot to Djibouti disguised as a local person and wearing a makeshift pair of rubber
sandals. He was granted political asylum by the government of Djibouti government
and he remained in that country for 18 months.
With the help of UNHCR, the Catholic Charity, and the U.S. consul, Frew immigrated
to the United States as a refugee in September of 1980. He settled in the Washington,
D.C. area and began taking classes at the University of District of Columbia while
working several part-time jobs. He became a citizen of the United States on July 3,
1986 and graduated that August with a major in Business Management and a minor in
Economics.
In September of 1989, Frew left Washington, D.C. and moved to Fremont, California.
He married Debbie in 1998 and together they have three kids-two boys and a girl.
His passion for reading and a recent visit to Ethiopia led him to get involved with
Ethiopia Reads. This organization strives to engender a reading culture in the children
of Ethiopia by connecting children with books. He recently became a board member
for Ethiopia Reads and remains active in fundraising activities and the establishment of
new chapters in the Bay Area.
Among the many blessings Frew describes, he is most thankful for finding God, having
a family, and his two most recent visits to his home country.
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Sewasew Meaza
Artist in Residence
Sewasew Meaza came to Chicago from Ethiopia and has lived on
Chicago’s North side for 28 years. She holds a BFA from the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sewasew has worked on murals
as commissioned artist for the city of Chicago and as a graphic
designer in the advertising industry. Among her other studies
she found herself drawn to research her Ethiopian heritage. She
is fascinated with the works of Ethiopian Talisman and the beauty
of ancient scripts. In her art works she applies Ethiopian motifs
and traditional alphabets that tells a story or evoke a mood to help introduce the Ethiopian
culture.
At the present time Sewasew resides in Cupertino, CA. She teaches art and operates
Ethiopian Cultural Institute a¬†non profit organization that teaches Amharic language and
culture in San Jose.
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Elsa Yacob
Ethiopian Cooking Demonstration
Elsa Yacob came to the U.S. in 1971 where she lived in New York
for two years before moving to Washington D.C., Virginia and
Maryland. She got a B.S.C. in Business in 1979 from Bowie State
University in Maryland.
Elsa studied art at De Anza, Foothill and Canada Colleges in
California. She takes great pride in Ethiopian art and, in particular,
the intricacies of Ethiopian crosses. Elsa paints in watercolor and oil. She does ink line
drawing and some sculpting.
Elsa has worked with special needs kids at Cupertino High School for the past 8 years and
she loves it. And she loves life in the U.S.A.!
“We so appreciate your commitment to our Ethiopian children and the hundreds of
others benefited by the camp over the years.”
- A Parent
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Elias Negash
Musician
Elias Negash is an accomplished musician who has combined
his native Ethiopian music with his jazz education, and influences from the world music segment. He played throughout
the seventies and became one of the pioneering figures to
have brought Reggae and African music to the Bay Area with
smash hit groups including Obeah, Axum, Caribbean All Stars
and the Rastafarians.
In addition to his role as a musician, Elias dedicates his time in multiple humanitarian
efforts such as fundraising HIV/AIDS research and treatment, and building schools and
water-wells in the rural areas of Ethiopia. Further, Elias was serving as a board member and treasurer for Ethiopian Arts Forum that strives to accomplish its objectives
through the presentation of Ethiopian music, dance, poetry, drama and visual arts to
the community. Currently Elias serves as president of “Anbessa Foundation” (www.anbessafoundation.org) a non-profit organization dedicated to being a bridge connecting Ethiopia and The United States.
Elias’ dedication to community service is not surprising because he hails from a family
tradition, in which community service is prominent. His grandfather, Fitawerare Tafesse
Hapte-Mickael, served his country as Minister of Works and Communication, as well as
being the first President and Chairman of the Board of Ethiopian Airlines. His grandfather was also the Ambassador to Iraq, Egypt, Syria, France and Saudi Arabia. His uncle
Hapte-Selassie Tafesse is best known as “the father of Ethiopian Tourism”. Among the
many other things he is credited for is coining the generation old marketing motto “13
months of sunshine.” Elias’s Father Betewoded Negash Bezabeh, the grandson of King
Tekel-Haimanot was a resistance leader who successfully fought against the Italian
invasion of Ethiopia. Given his lineage of service, Elias brings a deep sense of concern
for giving back to community.
“I am so overwhelmed! I do not have a valuable words that I can say to show how
much the Camp had been special to me. I am so happy about the time I had in the
Camp. It had been the special time I had ever had in my entire life. I felt like I had
been with my Sudanese community and for sure it was my African community. I
felt very happy since the beginning of the camp until the end and still up to now I
am happy with memories about the camp. I had enjoyed the Dance so much. The
moves in the dance were very much similar with my traditional dances. I was very
surprised to see such similarities in our cultures though I always doubt there is
something special and very attractive that makes life of Sudanese, Ethiopian, and
Eritrean more strongly bound. I appreciate your invitation and I admire everyone I
had met in the Camp. Thank you very much!
- A Speaker
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Patricia Donovan
Presenter
Patricia adopted her daughter Sentayehu in 1998, when Senti was
two years old, and her son Augustine in 2000, when Augie was
two years old. The Donovans traveled to Ethiopia and Kenya in
June 2008, the first return trip to Africa for Senti and Augie.
The Donovan family is part of a new non-profit group called
From Darkness To Light to benefit rural Ethiopian villagers in an
area south of Addis Ababa. FDL is currently focusing efforts on
completing an elementary school and water project in the village of Yilas.
Patricia was a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Kenya from 1983-1985, where she taught at
a secondary school in Kilifi, on the coast north of Mombasa. Pat has made several trips to
Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia over the years. Pat is a basic mathematics professor at San
Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. She has a BA in philosophy from University
of California, Davis and an MA in mathematics education from Columbia University.
Sentayehu (13) is an eighth grade student and Augustine (10) is a fifth grade student in
Roseville, California. The Donovans love attending Ethiopia Heritage Camp every year.
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Zenebech Dover
Child Care
My name is Zenebech Dover, but most people call me Zena.
I was born in Ethiopia and raised in Addis Abeba. I came to
the USA in February 2002. I am happily married and expecting
my first baby in November. I have been coming to Ethiopian
Heritage Camp for the last three years, its always so exciting to
see everyone there.
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Zinash Chichiso
Child Care
Hi everyone, my name is Zinash Chichiso. My husband and I came
from Ethiopia five years ago. I recently gave birth to a beautiful
baby girl named Belen. I am currently a stay-at-home mom. I love
being part of Ethiopian Hearitage camp because it gives me a
chance to meet so many wonderful people.
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Amber Stime, MSW
Executive Director and Founder of African Cradle, Inc.
At age 2 1/2, Amber was playing a game of toss with a group
of kids in her native Ethiopia when she caught what everyone
believed was a pumice stone. It was a grenade. The bomb
exploded; Stime lost both hands. Her parents placed her in an
orphanage so she would have better access to medical care. Six
years later, Amber was adopted by a couple from Minnesota.
“What happened to me was nothing compared to what some
of the other kids in the orphanage went through,” Amber, now
a social worker and mother of three, has said. “I always knew I would return to Ethiopia
one day, but I didn’t want to just visit. I wanted to help.” When she finally returned,
Stime found some of the same people, now adults, still living in the orphanage-including a former roommate with polio. “To see her grown up,” Stime says, “and to see
myself grown up with the opportunities I’ve had, it makes you wonder, Why?”
The experience inspired Stime to launch African Cradle in 1996. African Cradle is a
private nonprofit agency that started by working with the Ethiopian government to
find children adoptive families in the U.S. Because African Cradle was the first to place
children from Ethiopia, Amber is credited by many as being the pioneer of Ethiopian
adoption. Since those early days, African Cradle has also established permanency for
children from Tanzania, Eritrea, Burundi, Ghana, Haiti and the US.
Seeing a need to provide the children from Ethiopia with a cultural connection to
their homeland, Amber and Sandra Snook started the Ethiopian Heritage Camp as a
small local gathering in the Chicago area in 1997 and it has grown to the camp you see
today, with over 200 people attending from all over the country and beyond.
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Julie Valentine
Heritage Camp Coordinator
Julie began her adoption quest in 1995. It was during the
early stages of exploring her adoption options that she met
a woman named Amber Stime who had begun an adoption
program in Ethiopia. With Amber’s help, Julie brought her first
daughter, Madison, home from Ethiopia in 1997. Thus began a
long journey and a very special friendship.
Since that first meeting, Julie has worked with Amber as a
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tion of Ethiopian Heritage Camp. With African Cradle’s help, Julie adopted two more
children; Amber, a namesake who is also from Ethiopia, and Erickson who was born in
Haiti. Julie is a single mom.
Julie is the founder and director of Adopting.com (www.adopting.com), one of the
first adoption web sites. She specializes in web development for adoption agencies,
families seeking to adopt and non-profit organizations. Once a professional performer,
Julie continues to teach voice and acting in a private studio (www.valentinestudio/.
com).
Julie is, as always, very excited to be a part of Ethiopian Heritage Camp!
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Habtu Zemech
Photographer
Habtu Zemech was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He attended Shemiles Habte Comprehinsive High School
where he completed his high school education. Habtu spent
over 10 years working in the Church of Christ Mission in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. Having always wanted to study the Bible,
he returned to school and earned his associates degree from
N.G.C.S in 1991 in Nairobi, Kenya.
While in Kenya, Mr. Habtu worked with Ethiopian Refugees
who were misplaced from their Country and were stationed in different parts of
refugee camps in Kenya. He helped many to receive settlement in Europe and the
United States. After graduating he returned to Ethiopia and was appointed assistant
Director to the Church of Christ mission work.
Habtu is passionate about improving the lives of children and was instrumental in
the development of orphanage homes for children and equipping them with the
knowledge of the Bible.
Habtu came to the United States on June 23, 1996 and currently resides in
Woodbridge, Virginia with his wife Meaza, son Samuel and Daughter Sophia. Habtu’s
parents and extended family live in Ethiopia. Habtu works as an Assistant Project
Managerfor a government-contracting agency at the United States Patent and Trade
Mark Office in Alexandria, Virginia.
Habtu graduated Cum Laude from Strayer University with a Bachelor’s degree in
Internetworking Technology and a member of Alpha Chi National Honor Society, D.C.
Gamma Chapter. Habtu is a member of the Church of Christ at Falls Church, Virginia
and serves as a Deacon for Domestic Mission works.
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African Cradle Heritage Camp Schedule of Events
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Time Activity Location
4:00 - 5:45 pm
Registration & Sign in Fireside Deck
6:00 pm
Dinner Dining Hall/Picnic Area
7:00 pm
Opening Ceremony
Worship Center
7:30 pm Ice Cream Social / Family Games
Picnic Area / Field
8:15 - 10:00 pm Bonfire - folk songs & story time
Firepit
“For the first time I don’t have to explain who I am.”
- A Child
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Time Activity Location
7:30-9:00 am Breakfast
9:00-10:15 am “White People & Their Racial Identity” Dr. Janet E. Helms, Keynote Speaker (18yrs & up)
Dining Hall/Picnic Area
Worship Center
9:00-10:15 am Amharic Name Art / Tie-dying (ages 5-17)
Fireside Hall / Field by Redwood Deck
Alternating art projects with Sewasew Maza & Amber Stime
t-shirts are available for purchase
10:00 - 11:00 am Coffee Ceremony
Firepit
10:45-12:00 pm Music and Poetry in Ethiopian Culture
Dr. Adu Worku and Dr. Getie Gelaye (ages 12-Adult)
Worship Center
10:45-12:00 pm Children’s Dance Workshop 1(5-11 years)
Recreational Center 10:15-12:00 pm Merkato Open
Worship Center 12 noon
Lunch
Dining Hall / Picnic Area
1:00-2:15 pm Ethiopian Cooking Demonstration
Elsa Yacob and Botanesh Nehash
Creekside Lounge
1:00-2:15 pm “Let Us Play”Traditional
Ethiopian Games Dr. Adu Worku (ages 5-11)
Worship Center 1:00-2:15 pm Teen / Young Adult Dance Workshop 1 (12-25 years)
Recreational Center
1:00-3:00 pm Merkato Open
Worship Center
2:30-3:45 pm “People of Color and Their Racial Identity” Dr. Janet E. Helms, Keynote Speaker (Adults)
Worship Center 2:30-3:30 pm Ethiopian Children’s Songs (ages 2-4)
Worship Center Side Room
(Children in the nursery will be escorted to and from this activity)
2:30-3:45 pm “Talking about Race and Me” Dr. Maryam Jernigan (ages 12-17)
Fireside Lounge
2:30-3:45 pm Basket Weaving (ages 5-11)
Sewasew Maza
Fireside Hall 4:00-5:00 pm Swimming / Free Time
Courtyard / Pool
4:00-5:00 pm Coffee Ceremony
5:30 pm Dinner
Firepit Dining Hall / Picnic area
6:00-7:00 pm Family Games
Field
7:00-8:30 pm Bonfire - Ethiopian folk songs & story time
Firepit 8:30-10:00 pm “Our Homeland Trip” (All)
Patricia Donovan
Worship Center
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
Time 7:30-9:00 am
Activity Location
Breakfast
Dining Hall / Picnic area 9:00-10:15 am
“My American Experience: Worship Center
A refugee’s Odyssey to make it in America” (ages 12-Adult)
Frew Tibebu Realtor, e-PRO, BBA
9:00-10:15 am
Children’s Dance Workshop 2 (ages 5-11)
9:00-10:00 am
Ehtiopian Songs for Pre-schoolers (ages 2-4)
Heritage Lounge
(Children in the nursery will be escorted to and from this activity)
10:15-12:00 pm
Merkato Open
10:00-11:00 am
Coffee Ceremony
10:45-12:00 pm
Amharic Children’s Songs Dr. Getie Gelaye (ages 5-11)
Recreational Center 10:45-12:00 pm
Discussion –“What Would You Do?” (All)
Dr. Janet E. Helms & Dr. Maryam Jernigan
Worship Center 12 noon
Lunch
Dining Hall/Picnic area
1:00-2:15 pm
Teen / Young Adult Dance Workshop 2 (12-25 years) Recreational Center
1:00-4:30 pm
Free Time - Options:
1:00-4:30 pm
Swimming
Pool
1:00-4:30 pm
Field Games, Demozie Stime
Field
1:00-2:15 pm
Hair Care Demonstration, Andrea DuPre (All)
Fireside Lounge
Recreational Center Worship Center
Firepit
1:00-3:00 pm
Amharic Name Art (All) Fireside Hall
Parents can try their hand at this or kids can finish up projects from yesterday
1:00-3:00 pm
Silk Screen T-shirts
Fireside Hall
Bring your t-shirts (tie-dyed or not) to Sewasew
during this time for silk screening (t-shirts are available for purchase)
1:00-3:00 pm
Coffee Ceremony
Firepit
1:00-3:00 pm
Merkato Open
Worship Center
4:30-4:50 pm
Dress in your Ethiopian clothes or T-shirts!!
(Available for purchase at the Merkato)
5:00-5:45 pm
Group Photo Courtyard
6:00 pm
Ethiopian Banquet
Dining Hall / Picnic area
7:00-9:30 pm
Bonfire - Coffee Ceremony Firepit
7:30 pm
Dance and Song Performance
Redwood Deck
Featuring the young people of Ethiopian Heritage Camp 2009
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
Time Activity Breakfast
7:30-9:00 am
Location
Dining Hall / Picnic area 9:00 am
All rooms must be vacated
PLEASE turn in KEYS and NAME TAGS at Worship Center!
There is a $5 fee for all lost keys.
Closing Ceremony
Worship Center
10:00 - 11:00 am
Merkato Open
Worship Center 11:00 am Lunch
Build Your Own Sack Lunch
Picnic area
11:30 am
Final Check Out
All keys and name tags must be turned in.
There is a $5 fee for all lost keys.
Worship Center
10:00 am
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!
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Program Descriptions
Amharic Name Art (ages 5-17)
Learn basic Amharic words and how to write your name. Then turn your name
into a beautiful framed piece of art. This will alternate with tie-dyeing on Friday
morning. At the second session on Saturday afternoon, parents and others
can try their hand at this and kids can finish up projects from Friday. Led by
our resident artist, Sewasew Meaza, and Ethiopian languages expert, Dr. Getie
Gelaye.
Tie-dyeing (ages 5-17)
Tie-dye a shirt or other garment. Then, if you like, you can have it silk-screened
Saturday afternoon. Led by Sewasew Meaza and Amber Stime, this will be an
alternating project with the Amharic Name Art so everyone will get a chance to
do both. (White t-shirts are available for purchase.)
Dance Workshops (different age groups)
Kids and young adults will have an opportunity to learn traditional Ethiopian
dances and will demonstrate what they’ve learned Saturday night.
Basket Weaving (ages 5-11)
We’ve all admired Ethiopian baskets. Now our kids will have an opportunity to
learn how to make them! After the session, we will move the basket weaving to
the craft table outside of the Worship Center where - hopefully - our kids can
teach the rest of us how to do it! Sewasew Meaza will guide this project.
Ethiopian Cooking Demonstration (all ages)
Elsa Yacob and Botanesh Nehash will teach us how to prepare traditional
Ethiopian food. Come learn how to make that wonderful food you only enjoy
when you go to a restaurant or come to camp!
Hair Care Demonstration (all ages)
Many Caucasian parents of Ethiopian children experience challenges with the
differences in hair texture and styles. Hairstylist Andrea DuPree will guide us
through the basic techniques of caring and styling our children’s hair.
Silk Screen T-shirts (all ages)
Drop off your t-shirts (tie-dyed or not) with Sewasew for silk screening from 1:00
– 3:00 on Saturday. She will silk screen them with the Ethiopian Lion of Judah
and have them ready for you to pick up later in the day. (T-shirts are available for
purchase.)
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Merkato
The Merkato is regarded as the commercial center of Addis Ababa and is one of
the largest markets in Africa. To visit the Merkato in Ethiopia is to have your senses
awakened. The pungent smell of spices, the sound of car horns and the voices of
young merchants selling their products fill the air. The beautiful faces of young and
old, the colorful baskets and intricate patterns of tapestry provide a kaleidoscope view.
While our Merkato does not offer the authentic experience of the Merkato in Ethiopia,
we do offer some tastes of Ethiopia.
In our Merkato you will find :
Heritage Camp sweatshirts & t- shirts
Heritage Camp mugs & tote bags
New & gently worn authentic Ethiopian clothing
Ethiopian & African gifts
Ethiopian jewelry
Authentic Ethiopian coffee
Ethiopian spices
Ethiopian cookbook
See the daily schedule for Merkato hours
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General Information
Pool Hours
Thursday
Friday
Saturday Sunday 12 noon – 3:45 pm
12 noon – 3:45 pm
12 noon – 5:00 pm
12 noon – 5:00 pm
Sign Out Sheet
A daily sign out sheet will be located in the Nursery. We ask that anyone leaving
camp to sign out upon departure and sign in upon your return.
First Aid
Supplies for minor bumps and bruises will be located in the Nursery.
Check Out Time
Although we aren’t required to be off campus until noon, all rooms must be vacated
by 9:00 A.M. Sunday. Please turn in your keys and name tags at the Worship Center
and join us for the Closing Ceremony at 10:00 am.
Child Care
Available in the Nursery
Friday & Saturday
9:00 am - 12 noon & 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Hair Braiders
Braiders will be available to braid hair in the Heritage Lounge. There will be a sign up
on the door to make an appointment.
Contact Information
In an effort to protect the privacy of families attending camp, we will only provide
contact information for families requesting to be included in the list. This list will
be available for download from a password protected area of the African Cradle
“I want you to know that I want to be a part of this noble project and would
like to help in anyway, I can.“
- A Guest
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web site (www.africancradle.org) a few weeks after camp. If you would like to be
included in the Contact list and did not do so at check-in, please fill out the Contact
Information Agreement form found in this booklet.
A Child Waits …
African Cradle has created a plastic bracelet to show the world we support adoption.
The colors are familiar – the green, yellow and red of Ethiopia and many other
African countries. The message is universal and tells the world that we embrace
the formation of families through adoption. You can purchase these bracelets,
available in youth and adult sizes, for $3.00 each, plus $1.00 shipping and handling.
Send your orders, with check or credit card information and sizes needed, to African
Cradle, 4043 El Camino Way, Palo Alto, CA 94306. For special pricing of large orders,
please contact [email protected].
Questions?
If you have any questions, please talk to Amber Stime or Julie Valentine.
“Weeks later our family is still talking about what a wonderful time we had!”
- A Parent
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Ethiopian
Coffee…
Good to the last drop!
Coffee Ceremony
The best coffee in the world comes from the highlands of Ethiopia. To drink coffee the
Ethiopian way is a ceremonial experience. At a coffee ceremony the coffee is roasted
on an open fire, brewed in a hand crafted clay pot and served in beautifully decorated
finger size cups. The coffee is dark and rich with an exquisite aroma. Traditionally a
coffee ceremony is a time for women to gather, discuss family issues, and provide
support for one another.
Our coffee ceremony is also designed as a time for sharing, socializing, and drinking
delicious coffee.
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Amharic Word Search
W S A F A M R U G E S T P Y Q J A A B Q Y O R A X B O D V D
K E A T I S I X E Q S O E K O S N J T T E I D O N E E U Y E
O L N W G T I S B R I W Q B H K G B F V K D W B O S C F S N
N U A D K E S M G T A B B A V V E I S I I A W S T E G E Z I
J M K I L R G U A A C T N G N O D G F S R H G E C T F N A S
O E Q Q N I I E M L N G G W X W D I H C C M G M Y E X H O K
H T L A X F D G F W U A D J E L A T E E H N Z U R B E N J S
S E T L I D J J E L N Z T N D K W I S H A Y I Z R S A X D A
U G B G L V K E L Y J A D A K E G Z A W T G C E T Y T K A B
A N R A Z U M E M Z T I S H N Y S L P J K I O E I V E L L A
B A A T I T E S T A M Z C T I N I T N I W B W K W L R O E B
T T V K A I J X W S A W K I I B I V A Q A E I A D U R V W A
P T A L J Z E E S H A R N L B H E L P E S W L D I W I Z U O
S G A D W P H G S H R E R E G A J D I L I N J E R A B C T L
P C M K N C L I D J C M S W L E O C U I R A J V Z B V C K J
ABABA
ABBAT
ADDIS
ALGA
ASHANGULLEE
BET
BETESEB
BILA
BIRR
CHEWATA
DESTA
DESTEGNA
DJELATEE
ERAT
FEGEGTA
FIKIR
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FITSUM
GIBJA
GWADDEGNA
HITSAN
INJERA
INNAT
KAI
KELD
KONJO
KWAS
LIDJ
LIDJAGERER
METEGNAT
MISA
MISGANA
MUZ
MUZEEKA
SEFER
SETLIDJ
SHAYI
TSEGUR
TSEHAI
TSETITA
WELADJ
WENDIM
WENDLIDJ
WIKIYANOS
WOT
YEGIRKWAS
YEKIRCHATKWAS
Draw a Line
to match the English and Amharic words
birr beteseb keld gwaddegna abbat fun dollar
father
family
friend
chewata wend lidj wissha muzeeka abbabba music
play
son
dog
dad
ashangulleet tsegur lidjagered bet destegna happy
home
doll
hair
girl
kwas hitsan gibja yekirchat kwas muz baby
banana
ball
banquet
basketball
konjo wendim alga kirchat lidig bed
beautiful
boy
brother
basket
desta misa fikir lidj djelatee kid
joy
ice cream
lunch
love
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Dedicated to building and nurturing adoptive families
for African and African American children
African Cradle, Inc. is a non-profit adoption agency licensed in California.
We have placed children from:
• Ethiopia • Burundi
• Haiti • Tanzania
• Eritrea • Ghana
• United States
We provide home study services throughout California.
We encourage and assist Africans to adopt from their Homeland.
We specialize in adoption counseling and postadoption support for families
raising children of African heritage.
Main Office
4043 El Camino Way
Palo Alto, CA 94306
(850) 461-9192
Email: [email protected]
Web site: www.africancradle.org