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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Gotta Support the Team
World Cup fever has hit the Hanson household yet again. Here are my boys ready to go support their team. (If you have never experienced watching an Enlish soccer game with Chris, it is about 100 times worse than watching a Steelers game with me:)
i don't know if 100 is the correct coefficient to multiply -- you can be pretty intense while watching your team :) chris would be happy to know darwin is obsessed with soccer (and surprisingly coordinated - even has hand-me-down cleats and shin guards). he likes to kick ruth's "hannah montana" ball -- maybe chris would disapprove of that!
• 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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i don't know if 100 is the correct coefficient to multiply -- you can be pretty intense while watching your team :) chris would be happy to know darwin is obsessed with soccer (and surprisingly coordinated - even has hand-me-down cleats and shin guards). he likes to kick ruth's "hannah montana" ball -- maybe chris would disapprove of that!
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