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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Skype-ing
We Skype with Chris' parents in England, and initially Yoni wasn't too sure about it. Now, he is loving it, throwing in a few little performances and laughing at his grandparents. Isn't technology amazing?
• 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.
5 comments:
are our kids REALLy this big??? crazy, huh?
awesome!!!!
How fun! Skype us sometime! Hannah sees pictures of Yoni all the time on here...she'd love to see him for real!
i am embarrassed to admit that i have never skyped. not once. is it easy?
Skype is great! Noah loves his flat daddy!
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