Closing in on a dream: Staten Islander prepares to adopt brothers from Colombia — and unite as a family

Author: Kristin F. Dalton
Published: Apr. 13, 2022, 5:50 a.m.

Andrea Uribe will be taking a nearly six-hour plane ride to Colombia in the coming weeks to make their adoption of Jhon, 7, and Edison, 14, official.

The boys lived with Uribe in their Huguenot home for five weeks last summer through KidSave.org – a non-profit organization that gives children from orphanages summer vacations in the United States with American families through foster-to-adopt programs.

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