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Saturday, March 7, 2009
We've got a WALKER
Last week at my parents' house Yonas started taking a few steps and boy was he proud. Now he is walking all over our house and even turning around and going the other way. He definitely thinks that he's the bomb, and who can argue?
• 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.
4 comments:
how exciting. and remember, r year old darwin said, "yoni is a movie star" ....which is accurate considering his most recent accomplishment!
I was hoping Yoni's first steps would be to Busia. This just proves your visit in Durango was too short.
loves it! goes fast, doesn't it?
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