Emma Thompson and her husband Greg Wise have adopted a 17-year-old Rwandan orphan, Tindyebwa Agaba. The couple decided upon adoption after unsucessful In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment. The couple have a six year old daughter, Gaia. The plight of Rwandan orphans were brought to the couples attention through Thompson's charital work in the country.
Thompson said, "I started to think about the things I could do usefully to help children. Funnily enough, through finding something else to do with my mothering instincts, other children have come and there is something to offer them - a life with an extended family, which I think is preferable to an entirely nuclear family."
The teen's parents were both killed during the Rwanda civil war.
Source: Contact Music
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