Adoption

I have a dream!

I want to adop children one day. I want to give those kids a home that dont have one. I have had this dream since I can think ( ok maybe since I was 15) and I love to learn more about adoption or follow blogs of families on their adoption journey! I think this is what I am supposed to do. I don't think this is some idea, but Gods plan in my life. There are different coutries I feel drawn to adopt from. Ethiopia, China and Russia for example.

I feel very strongly about Ethiopia though. Why?

• 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.

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I also feel led to adopt a child with down syndrom one day. I know this might seem weird to many but there are so many kids out there that deserve a loving home and many of those are special needs. My cousin has down syndrom so this is something I have grown up with and I feel strongly about. There are many down syndrom kids in orphanages in Russia or the Ukraine for example. The first years of their life they spend in an orphanage, but then they go to institutions and most of them die there within a year. I think that is horrible. They deserve to live! (http://reecesrainbow.com/)

So this is something I feel led to do and I hope and pray that I will be able to give some kids a home who werent as fortunate as I am.