Expanding our Hearts and Minds: I gotta tell you....

Monday, March 5, 2012

I gotta tell you....

When my Ethan saw this video.....he said with sweet, precious tears...'Momma, we should get three kids....'

It.completely.breaks.your.heart.

Warning....this is tough

2 comments:

AnonymousMarch 7, 2012 at 4:41 PM
Difficult to watch, but so glad I did. We have nothing to ever complain about, huh? Thanks for sharing, Fran.
Michelle
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AnonymousMarch 16, 2012 at 5:02 AM
Didn't comment at the time of viewing, I mean seriously, what can you say! But I have thought of this often since, EVERYTIME I see a banana with spots on it. I can not count the number of times I have seen a child (mine included) that do not want to eat it because it is "bad". They would look like "fresh from the tree" compared to the ones that these were happy to have....
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Why 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
• Drought struck the country from 2000-2002 (first year no crops, second year no seeds, third year no animals)
• The median age in Ethiopia is 17.8 years
• In the 90s the population (3%) grew faster than food production (2.2%)
• Per capita, Ethiopia receives less aid than any country in Africa
• 720,000 children have been orphaned by AIDS alone, and there are 4.6 million orphans in Ethiopia.
• 1.5 million people are infected with AIDS (6th highest in the world)