Ethnic Dolls

Sock Dolls

My friend Lori won a trip to Ethiopia with Visiting Orphans and My Crazy Adoption just by buying a t-shirt from My Crazy Adoption. Here is the description of the trip she won:

Visiting Orphans is partnering with James River Assembly church to send out this mission team. This trip is open to members of James River Assembly Church and individual sign ups through this website and Kari Gibson’s blogsite, My Crazy Adoption.

The team will be working in Addis Ababa with Project 61 for extreme needy children living in the Korah city dump, and a 2-day ministry for orphaned street children (feeding program). We will have a special outreach at an orphanage 1.5 hours outside the city, as well as an excursion to Negash Lodge to see the beauty of rural Ethiopia. We will also visit Fistula Hospital for an exclusive tour of the center and the courageous women featured in the movie “A Walk To Beautiful.”

Lori has decided to take her daughter with her and they are selling handmade items to raise funds for Ali's trip. I bought two of Lori's dolls when we were adopting Anna & Adah back in 2007, we didn't know at that time who would join our family, but we bought the dolls anyways. Really cute, affordable, and just the right size=perfect!!

Buy One in your choice of Four Nationalities: African, Asian, Hispanic or Caucasian. OR, purchase TWINS! By one for yourself - AND - we will send her identical twin to an orphan in a foreign country. Body/Hat color requests accommodated when possible.
$10 go to www.doingitafraid.org

A Doll's Heart

http://www.adollsheart.blogspot.com/

Dolls available from: Ethiopia, India, Guatemala, China, Haiti, Ukraine/Russia $30 each

Each doll all has it's own country's flag colors embordiered on their hearts. There are 6 countries currently available, but she can make any country of Africa that people would want also.

All the proceeds off her site go to helping orphans through various avenues so she really want to get the word out. Please feel free to spread the word and list this on your blogs and FB if you like. I am currently highlighting an orphanage/children's home on her blog that houses only special needs kids, that I visited this fall.

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Heart 4 Hearts Dolls

http://www.target.com/Heart-4-Hearts-Rahel-Ethiopia/dp/B004880DD4/ref=br_1_2?ie=UTF8&id=Heart+4+Hearts+Rahel+Ethiopia&node=1041578&searchSize=30&searchView=grid5&searchPage=3&sr=1-2&qid=1291170127&rh&searchBinNameList=target_com_age%2Ctarget_com_gender-bin%2Ctarget_com_category-bin%2Cprice%2Ctarget_com_character-bin%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin%2Ctarget_com_ethnicity-bin&searchRank=salesrank&frombrowse=1

Kudos to Target. They got this one right! There are six beautiful dolls to choose from: Dell (USA), Lilian (Belarus), Rahel (Ethiopia), Nahji (India), Tipi (Laos), and Consuelo (Mexico. When you buy a Hearts For Hearts Girls doll, a portion of the purchase price is donated to children's causes in those countries through World Vision, a global humanitarian organization. $24.99, shipping Dec 22. Free shipping right now if you spend over $50.00.