Our Family through adoption: Traveling families

Seven families are traveling to Ethiopia this weekend to pick up their children! Five have blogs:
Notes from the terminal ward
Armstrongs2Ethiopia
Gambles blog
Pridemores blog
Yellow black and brown

If everything goes as planned, in one month we will be in Ethiopia to pick up Henry!!

Facts about Ethiopia

Total population: 77 million

The average income in Ethiopia is US$100 a year. Almost 82% of the population lives on less than $1 a day.

Malnutrition levels are among the highest in the world.

The average life expectancy is 43 years.Ethiopia is home to 4 million orphans, or 12% of all children.

More than half a million of these were orphaned as a result of AIDS.

Literacy rate: 42.7% age 15 and over can read and write.

Only 18 percent of children reach grade five.

Ethiopia's neonatal mortality rate is one of the highest in the world - 49/1000 births with tetanus infection being the second major cause of infant/neonatal death.

Statistics are from the CIA, Save the children, WHO and UNICEF websites.

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