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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Our little plumber
For some reason, Chris talks about how he would like to be a plumber. It is kind of his fall back career, if he ever gets tired of teaching. I'm not sure what is so romantic about plumbing, but I think he has been talking to Yonas about it. Here is Yonas with his favorite new toy.
• 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.
2 comments:
Hope you had a Happy Mother's Day. I cannot believe Yonas is 15 months already. Gosh time has flown by. He has changed so much.
Cathy
maybe there is someting to romanticize about 'the crack'
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