Now the problem is to choose if we want to adopt a child or two siblings, we haven't decided because we know each has pros and cons and we do not know what is more important.
I was searching about adopting siblings from Ethiopia and found a blog from people who already adopted from there. And the questions was: why adopt from Ethiopia and not from some other country? The answer answer is this: In the mid 80's there was a drought in Ethiopia, one could not turn the TV on and not see images of children dying of hunger - some so weak they could not keep their head up. Things didn't improve much, Ethiopia is still the 4th poorest country in the world, people there earn less than $160 USD per family per year.
- 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
- Ethiopia receives less help per capita than any other country in Africa
- In the 90's the population increased faster (3%) than the production of food (2.2%)
- The drought hit the country between 2000 and 2002 (the first year they lost their harvest, the second they didn't have seeds and the third they didn't have animals)
- Half of the children will never go to school
- 88% will never go to high school
- The price of coffee (the only important export of Ethiopia) dropped 40-60% from 1998 to 2002
- In Ethiopia there is one doctor per 24,000 children
- In 1993, after 30 years of war, Erithrea gained independece from Ethiopia leaving it without access to the sea
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