Ethiopian Orphan Rescue a.k.a. Adoption

Our good friends the Webbs are called by God to rescue an orphan from Ethiopia! This has been a very exciting for us (and exhausting and exciting for them). They are about to complete their home study, and we are having a HUGE yard sale at our church on Saturday. Come by if you can- if you can't, go to their blog and contribute $ on PayPal. They are a wonderful Godly couple giving everything that they have and more to make this happen- won't you help?

Reasons To Adopt From Ethiopia

• 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.