Why Ethiopia?

Just because a lot of people ask the question, "Why Ethiopia?" I thought I would share these statistics:

• There are over six million orphans in Ethiopia
• One out of every 20 children born alive die in their first month of life
• One out of ten children born die before their first birthday
• Ethiopia’s doctor to children ratio is 1 to 24,000.
• One out of six children die before their fifth birthday
• The median age in Ethiopia is 18
• Per capita, Ethiopia receives less aid than any country in Africa
• Coffee prices (Ethiopia’s only major export) fell 40-60% from 1998-2002 - strange since coffee consumption has grown in the US.
• 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.
• If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans.