A Bevy of Boys: Good news and bad news

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Good news and bad news

OK, so last night we decided to order pizza. Zorka and I woke up at around 2am, puking our guts out! Not fun. So the bad news is, we have food poisoning. The good news is that it's that and not a stomach flu that the boys would get as well!

But wait, there's more good news! On a day when I feel so awful, something made my day wonderful. We received our I-171H approval from U.S. Immigration! This makes us officially able to accept a referral when one comes our way. Sure takes my mind off the nausea!

1 comment:

KatJune 18, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Congrats? lol..ok, just so you know it's not congrats on food poisoning (yikes!).

I-171H ! WOO HOO!!!!
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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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