The Roberts Six: We made it!

Saturday, August 27, 2011

We made it!

Just wanted to write a quick note to let you all know that we made it home to NC. It was a long and tiring trip of course, but we are home and everything made it. We'll write more later.

2 comments:

CherylAug 27, 2011 02:19 PM
Glad to hear it, I was just wondering how it went and how Ezra reacted to the airplane.
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The Roberts SixAug 28, 2011 04:08 AM
He did a pretty good job, as did all of our children.
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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