The second part of our trip to southern Ethiopia took us to the Hadiya zone and the tiny village of Sewore. This is where Feyissa Thomas was born and where he lived for the first four years of his life. It is the village where virtually all of his extended family still lives. Thomas began to get excited as we passed through the town of Bonosha and near to Sewore. Suddenly he sat up straight and said excitedly, "There it is...this is it!"
Indeed, it was. There was the cluster of simple picturesque huts that Thomas remembers as home and which we recognized from the video provided by our adoption agency. There was a crowd of people near the road, but Thomas had eyes only for one...his birth father.
The entire village was there to welcome home their boy. Not just his family...an entire village.
The pictures tell the rest of the story.
