Faces of Layla, a book of stunning photographs of children at Layla House orphanage in Ethiopia by Emma Dodge Hanson, foreward by Melissa Fay Greene and text by Jennifer Armstrong. Emma Dodge Hanson captures the lives of the children at Layla House. Gorgeous Hard Cover Book.
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Gorgeous photos and moving text...,
By Susan PD "Hana's mom" (Troy, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Faces of Layla, A Journey Through Ethiopian Adoption (Hardcover)
What is life like in an African orphanage? Put your Charles Dickens stereotypes away. Layla House, an orphanage in Ethiopia, is a hopeful, clean and loving place. It is a way station for children who have lived through unspeakable hardship (losing their parents in the AIDS epidemic sweeping the continent), a place of comfort and support where they can heal and wait to join a new family in America. Emma Dodge Hanson's photos of the children's lives are masterful and the text tells the moving story of some individual children, thus putting faces and personalities in place of the grim statistics. My own Ethiopian daughter spent time at Layla House and I can attest to the high standard of care but also the true affection given the children who live there.
Each child at Layla House dreams of a new family but for now, while they wait, they are like children everywhere--joyful, spirited and affectionate. They want to be doctors and nurses but also airplane pilots and motorcycle drivers. This is a great book for anyone interested in Africa, in children and in adoption---it just might help realize a few more of these children's dreams. By the way, all proceeds from the sale of the book goes to a fund that helps find families for the hardest-to-place children.
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This review is from: Faces of Layla, A Journey Through Ethiopian Adoption (Hardcover)
I would recommend this book to anyone, but in particular it is a must-have for those who are even remotely connected to Ethiopian adoption. We are currently waiting to bring home our two children (who are currently at Layla), and what I love about this book is that it makes our adoption seem very real to our friends and family members who previously showed little interest in, or understanding of, our adoption. I've had more than one person slowly flip through the book without saying a word, and then hand it back to me with tears in their eyes as Ethiopia, and the children at the orphanage, suddenly become very real to them. Ethiopia can seem very far away, and the concept of millions of orphaned children very abstract, to those of us in the Western world. The photos and narration of this book draw the reader closer to these resilient children who remain hopeful for their futures despite the tragedies that they have faced.
As a previous commenter noted, all of the proceeds from the book go directly towards a fund that makes adoption possible for the children who have been waiting the longest for a family.
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Faces of Layla, A Journey Through Ethiopian Adoption,
By D. Shawgo (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Faces of Layla, A Journey Through Ethiopian Adoption (Hardcover)
A stunningly vibrant book. Each photograph tells its own story. It is a book you will open again and again.
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