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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Cars, Cars, Cars
Cars in the bath!
My boy is into his cars. He screams car, car, car whenever he sees one, and he carries his matchbox cars wherever we go. He has also discovered the joy of pockets, and stuffs his full of, you guessed it, cars. Here are a few pics from the other day with his beloved cars.
• 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:
like the new blog look!!
E loves cars too (maybe from having a big brother). i hope someday E and Y can play together!
darwin stuffs his pockets with rocks from school. not good for the washer. love the pics.
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