Klaasen Family Adoption: January 2016

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Beautiful Home-Coming!!

Bethlehem and Tsinat welcomed home their friend, Salem, on Saturday! She's in the green and looks amazing for just traveling on a long flight home! Our girls were surprised to see 2 other friends, who they had NO idea were also living in West Michigan, at Salem's Home Coming party! There was LOTS of screaming when the girls got together! Kyah tried to fit right in - haha! God has some pretty big plans here with all their beautiful Ethiopian girls all being adopted in West Michigan. Can't wait to see what it is!!

Our God is an Amazing God!

Why Adopt From 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.
-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 90's the population (3%) grew faster than food production (2.2%). Drought struck the country from 2000-2002 (1st year no crops, 2nd year no seeds, 3rd 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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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Beautiful Home-Coming!!

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Straightened hair on our snow-day!

Monday, January 4, 2016

First day of school ... with their protector :)