Believe: Another Bump

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Another Bump

Well, I guess it would have been too easy to just wait for next Monday and get the good news about passing court. Apparently there was some miscommunication regarding our court date. The Ethiopian court has our court date as July 29th and not July 27th. So we will have to wait an extra two days. Still waiting with hopeful hearts.

1 comment:

Al and Lyndsie said...: Thanks for the update, you were on my mind and in my heart yesterday!; July 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM

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Why Adopt From Ethiopia?

• 44% of the population of Ethiopia is under 15 years old
• 60% of children in Ethiopia are stunted because of malnutrition
• Coffee prices (Ethiopia’s only major export) fell 40-60% from 1998-2002.
• Drought struck the country from 2000-2002 (first year no crops, second year no seeds, third year no animals)
• Ethiopia’s doctor to children ratio is 1 to 24,000.
• Half the children in Ethiopia will never attend school. 88% will never attend secondary school.
• In 1993, after 30 long years of war, Eritrea broke from Ethiopia and became an independent nation leaving Ethiopia landlocked without any major seafaring ports.
• In the 90s the population (3%) grew faster than food production (2.2%)
• One in six children die before their fifth birthday
• Per capita, Ethiopia receives less aid than any country in Africa
• The median age in Ethiopia is 17.8 years
• There are 4.6 million orphans in Ethiopia.
• 1.5 million people are infected with AIDS (6th highest in the world)