"Discover Ethiopian Roots is not just a traveling agency and not just a root searching service. Margeret provides families with adopted children from Ethiopia with everything they need to make their journey unforgettable and enjoyable. She understands the particular needs of adoptive families. She will help to connect to the country and to make a positive experience for children and their parents. She works with guides who speak English and/or German. She makes families feel safe and at home in the country of origin of their children. She offers excellent services for root searching with honest and straight communication and regular reporting on the progress - as well as failure - and she is persevering in her research. We highly recommend her - for any trip to Ethiopia and for root searching as well."

"Please ask Margeret for our contact. We will be happy to share more information via e-mail."

Claudine and Stefan, Switzerland

"We enjoyed the trip very much. All was very well organized and showed us very interesting places of Ethiopia. We were very satisfied.“

Agnes Glutz, Switzerland

As our adopted daughter turned 12, we wanted to discover her roots and I gathered three families with the same issue. My first and best contact was Margaret and her organisation of Discover Ethiopian Roots. She helped us in a very professional and yet very personal way to organise our journey. As Margaret has lived herself in different cultures, she has a deep sense of understanding of our needs and challenges. We enjoyed a journey back to the roots of our daughter but also discovering a wonderful and beautiful country at the same time.

It touched us so much, that we did a second journey of 3 weeks with another family five years later. Both journeys have helped us to get a better understanding of the culture and roots of our daughter as well as having a very positive impact on our family live, which we will cherish for the rest of our lives. We can truly recommend Margaret and her professional service.

Markus Fluckiger, Switzerland

"Together with our two sons we made a wonderful trip through Ethiopia in 2018. The trip was planned and executed by Margeret Woldetensae's agency. It took us from Addis Ababa to Lake Tana and Gondar and then south to Hawassa. Our tour guide Belete and our driver Habtamu accompanied us in a very friendly, competent and flexible manner. We have gathered unforgettable impressions of this beautiful country. Thank you!"

Family Janett Spiekermann, Baden, Switzerland

We used Margeret's root searching service and are very satisfied.

Although it was very difficult to find the biological mother of our son, Margeret was successful thanks to her untiring and purposeful work and her connections.

After the mother was found, she interviewed her very perceptively. She received answers to important questions from our son. At the same time she was able to comfort and support his mother.

Now she keeps in touch with her and gives her emotional support. We are very grateful and happy about it.

We cannot plan a trip to Ethiopia in the near future but we will continue to use Margaret's services.

Yvonne Forster Bernhard und Heinz Bernhard

We wanted to find the biological parents of our adopted son and we had some contacts for root searching. Margeret was the one where we felt comfortable and we had the impression that she really cares about the families.

She is absolutely fair in all the conditions and she was successful in a difficult search by binding the biological mother. We were surprised that after the successful job, she is still supporting the biological mother with emotional support and translations (as the mother doesn’t speak English), and also if we want something, she is still always there.

So, we are absolutely happy and grateful with everything that she made in the role of a root-finder, and also with her as a human and as a personality.

I would recommend Margeret to anyone for root-searching in Ethiopia.

Until now our son doesn’t want to visit his roots, but we hope that he will soon be ready for that, and then we would be happy to find out how good Margeret is in organizing a trip in Ethiopia.

We can only say “Thank you Margeret”

Sandra and Ilias, Winterthur, Switzerland

Ho conosciuto Margeret lo scorso anno a Pasqua 2024 in occasione di un tour al sud attraverso al Omo Valley con mio fratello Stefano e con i nostri figli di 14 anni, Camilla e Yared adottati ad Addis nel 2011, il nostro viaggio era un viaggio conoscitivo della nazione da parte dei nostri figli, esperienza magnifica l’incontro con diversi gruppi etnici nei loro villaggi, tour di 7 giorni organizzato da Margeret con la guida Daghi e l’autista Robel, tutte persone estremamente professionali e simpaticamente amichevoli nel rapporto con i nostri figli che a loro volta si sono trovati a loro agio e si sono molto affiatati e divertiti. Tutta l’organizzazione è stata pianificata in maniera impeccabile, lo scopo del nostro viaggio era chiaro a Margeret fin dall’inizio e lei con la sua sensibilità è riuscita a proporci un viaggio emozionante e adatto a noi, i nostri figli ricordano con grande serenità questi momenti, per noi genitori era il desiderio maggiore che è stato esaudito.

Dopo un anno, febbraio 2025 questa volta senza famiglia eccomi di nuovo in Etiopia, (per me è la quarta volta) ancora grazie a Margeret ho visitato la stupenda e pacifica Harar con all’interno della Medina ben 82 moschee. Accompagnato sempre da Daghi è stata la volta della depressione della Dancalia, partendo da Semera per raggiungere il Dallol, la piana del Sale con il lago Karum ed infine la magnifica salita sul vulcano Erta Ale. Viaggio un po’ diverso più avventuroso e faticoso fisicamente che comunque riserva a livello naturalistico delle sorprese magnifiche e indescrivibili. Anche qui voglio ringraziare Margeret per l’impeccabile organizzazione. Torneremo sicuramente!!