The Roberts Report: The Group

Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Group

So, here we are as we are getting ready to hop in the car Sunday morning to head back to Nairobi. This is the only group picture we got all week!

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Reasons to Adopt from Ethiopia

-one in six children die before their fifth birthday
-44% of the population of Ethiopia is under 15 years old
-60% of children in Ethiopia are stunted because of malnutrition
-the median age in Ethiopia is 17.8 years
-1.5 million people are infected with AIDS
-720,000 children have been orphaned by AIDS alone, and there are 4.6 million orphans in Ethiopia
-per capita, Ethiopia receives less aid than any country in Africa
-half the children in Ethiopia will never attend school. 88% will never attend secondary school
-coffee prices (Ethiopia's only major export) fell 40-60% from 1998-2002
-Ethiopia's doctor to children ratio is 1 to 24,000
-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