A Bevy of Boys: It's good to be #1

Thursday, May 21, 2009

It's good to be #1

Well isn't it interesting that I just posted today that it is so hard to be patient.... The Adamsons, the family in the #1 spot, accepted a referral today for BROTHERS, ages 3 and 5! In addition to that being fantastic news for us, we are so very happy for them, as well as for a lucky little set of sibs. Just shows, you never know when good news is coming your way!

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KendellMay 25, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Congrats on being #1! How awesome and super exciting! I cannot wait to see your "we got our referral" post...it's coming!!!

Kendell
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Why Ethiopia?

In Ethiopia, approximately 1 in 10 children die in infancy, and nearly double that number die by their 5th birthday, due to infections, tetanus and diarrhea. Ethiopia is considered the 3rd worst place in the world to be born, better only than Burkina Faso and Djibouti. Of the children who survive, many will lose their mother in childbirth and many more will lose one or both parents to HIV/AIDS.

As more and more parents die, the capacity of extended family members to take care of orphans shrinks. Ethiopia has reached the breaking point where orphaned children are now forced into the streets, into difficult working conditions and/or into heading their households.

In 2001, 13.2% of the population, 3.8 million children, was orphaned. In comparison, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda resulted in 500,000 orphans and the 2004 Tsunami in Southeast Asia resulted in 10,000 orphans. In 2006, American parents adopted only 731 orphans. 3,799,269 orphans remain vulnerable.

(courtesy of www.ethiopianrelief.org)

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