{"id":278165,"date":"2019-06-06T00:03:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T04:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm1ubm9ubGluZS5vcmcvbmV3cy9leHBhbmRpbmctZm9zdGVyLWNhcmUtY2hhbmdpbmctZXRoaW9waWFuLWNvbW11bml0aWVzL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:16:00","slug":"a-foster-care-program-said-it-was-expanding-across-more-ethiopian-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278165","title":{"rendered":"A foster-care program said it was expanding across more Ethiopian cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Mission Network News reported that Bethany Christian Services\u2019 foster-care work in Ethiopia was growing and already serving families in five cities.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-501854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A foster-care program said it was expanding across more Ethiopian cities\" \/>\n<p>Expanding foster care is part of a longer effort to keep children in family settings instead of institutions, which remains an important social-policy thread for Horn readers who follow child welfare.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as social archive, the report dates one NGO\u2019s mid-2019 claim that foster care was changing local Ethiopian communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/expanding-foster-care-changing-ethiopian-communities\/\">Mission Network News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expanding foster care changing Ethiopian communities&nbsp;&nbsp;Mission Network NewsBethany Christian Services&#8217; successful foster care program in Ethiopia is growing. Currently, they serve in five cities and have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":501854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=966%2C607&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1amx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755052,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278165\/revisions\/755052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}