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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Mr. Wooden Legs
This is Yonas' favorite new thing, flying around the house behind his little convertible car. He skids on his knees when he is out of control and can even turn it around when he hits any immovable object. Sorry the pictures are of such poor quality, the boy is FAST!
Here Yonas is whizzing past Chichi. If she gets in the way, Yonas just runs right through her. Poor Chichi girl!
• One in ten children die before their first birthday • 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 (6th highest in the world) • 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 • In the 90s the population (3%) grew faster than food production (2.2%) • Drought struck the country from 2000-2002 (first year no crops, second year no seeds, third year no animals) • 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.
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Noah has the same car thing and loves pushing it into everything too!
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