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Our Adoption Timeline
- 03-05-10 Home Study Visit
- 1-22-10 Home-study package to Dove mailed!
- 10-02-09 Inkless fingerprints done and sent off!
- 09-16-09 Met with Dove/home study info
- 09-12-09 Received Home Study packet!
- 02-10-09 Contract notarized and returned to Dove, with some fees.
- 01-10-09 Received Dove contract in mail. Need to raise fees and return contract.
- 12-31-08 Completed Conference Call w/Dove
- 10-23-08 Sent Application to Dove Adoptions
- 10-24-08 Application received by Dove Adoptions
One Love Coffees Adoption Fundraiser
Ethiopia Facts
- Ethiopia is home to 4 million orphans, or 12% of all children. More than half a million of these were orphaned as a result of AIDS.
- Ethiopia’s doctor to children ratio is 1 to 24,000
- One in ten children die before their first birthday.
- One in six children die before their fifth birthday.
- Between 60-150 million kids live on the streets
- Malnutrition levels are among the highest in the world.
- Half the children in Ethiopia will never attend school; 88% will never attend secondary school
- The average income in Ethiopia is $100 a year (in US dollars). Almost 82% of the population lives on less than $1 a day.
3 comments:
sweet! i think that since teresa has been bitten i have lost the will to post about twilight! ha ha.
ooooh thats awesome! December will be here before we know it!!! anyone gone to Borders yet to read the first chapter in the back of Eclipse?
I can't wait!!!! by noon I should finish New Moon. I can't put these books down.
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