We are now on week 3 of waiting for a referral. After running around for 3 months like crazy people... getting fingerprinted, gathering every speck of info (i.e. birth cert., marriage cert, vitals) available on us, having a HUGE yard sale (that we are still recovering from physically), having our home inspected...it is time to sit still and wait! It feels a little strange, I must say. People ask us all the time, "What's going on with the adoption?". Well, not much that we can see. The next thing that will happen on our side is we will get a referral with pictures and info about our child. That should be 3.25 to 5.25 more months! yes the .25 is to ephasize we have already waited our .75 months.
Let me share a few stats about Ethiopia for those of you that haven't heard of the country since "We are the World" came out in the eighties.
*Ethiopia is twice the size of Texas
*it has a population of about 75 million people
*there are approx. FIVE MILLION orphans in Ethiopia
*the average income is $500/YEAR
*One in six children die before their fifth birthday
*One in ten children die before their first birthday
*Half the children in Ethiopia will never attend school; 88% will never attend secondary school
*Only 24% of households have access to safe drinking water
*Ethiopia’s doctor to children ratio is 1 to 24,000
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Thank you for the information about Ethiopia. It's good for all of us to get educated and realize how important helping is (I know many of your readers are already educated and helping)! Baby Morgan is already teaching others (maybe she's called to teach like her Mae Mae and Aunt Chrissie!)
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