This is an excerpt from an article I read recently. There has been little modern research on mingi. Elders single out for death children who are born out of wedlock, have damaged genitals, or whose top baby teeth emerge before the bottom ones. Elders believe keeping this traditional practice is crucial to tribal survival. Allowing a mingi child to live among their people, they fear, will cause the rains to cease and the sun to grow hotter. In the three tribes, which practice “mingi”, there are a total of roughly 130,000 people living in hundreds of villages spanning an area totaling hundreds of square miles. It is estimated that more than 1000 children are killed each year because they were “mingi”.
For whatever the reason the children are cursed and are usually thrown into a river and left to die. There are now several groups working to convince tribal leaders to give these children up for adoption.
What can you do to help? Awareness is the first step. Search for articles or news reports about the problem of "Mingi Children" and share what is going on Southern Ethiopia. Second find a group that is caring for "Mingi Children" and support them. One organization I've found is Bring in Love, they pair up widows that they've trained with vocational skills and Mingi Children who need adopted parents.
