This is for anyone struggling to locate a birthplace on a map.
My dear friend Julie works with a humanitarian relief organization and recently shared the ReliefWeb website. There is so much information here!
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc100?OpenForm
I labored a long time to locate Bear's birthplace on a map after his referral. I eventually found it thanks to another adoptive father with a child from the same region. He sent a UN relief map that showed the dirt roads that lead to Kacha Bira and surrounding areas. I had not thought of researching through a relief channel but was so glad he had.
On the ReliefWeb website, there is a tab just for maps, and it can be filtered by country. Besides locating a remote village, these maps will also tell about circumstances effecting a region. Issues of food security, relief programs, policy, drought, floods, conflict, transportation, migration, and many others. The information is current so it's possible to follow what is going on in a region of interest. I am intensly interested in the connection this provides us to Bear's birthplace and the place his birth family is living right now.
For fellow families out there with children from the Kembata region, also called the Kembata Tembaro Zone or KT, search for any Ethiopia maps with SNNP in the title. You will see KT in the middle of the region.
I hope this helps with the search!
Ok, I must be really bad at finding things on website's...can you point me in the right direction? Johnny's birthplace is Kacha Bira, Debub and ethnicity is Kembata. Is this the same as Bear's? Any info on the region and/or maps you have found would be great! Hope you guys are doing well
ReplyDeleteYou're awesome, Rebecca! Miss talking with you. Will catch up soon and will definitely be looking at the map website when the girls are in bed.
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