For further information about Ethiopia:
An alternative source of Ethiopian news and views.
www.ethiomedia.comCentral Intelligence Agency World Factbook
(select Ethiopia from list of countries).
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
Lonely Planet World Guide: Ethiopia.
www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/africa/ethiopia/Portals to the World: Ethiopia.
www.loc.gov/rr/international/amed/ethiopia/ethiopia.htmThe Addis Tribune.
www.addistribune.comTo Hear Ethiopian Music:
Addis Live! Ethiopian music and entertainment.
www.addislive.com
BIRTH & MORTALITY
- Birth attended by skilled health personnel (year - percentage): 2005 - 5.7%
- Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births: 2005 - 720 (7.2%)
- Children under five mortality rate per 1,000 live births: 2006 - 123 (12.3%)
- Infant mortality rate (0-1 yr.) per 1,000 live births: 2006 - 77 (7.7%)
- Adolescent birth rate, per 1,000 women: 2003 - 109.15 (11% of births are to adolescents)
Nutritional Status
- Population undernourished, percentage: 2002 - 46%
- Children under 5 moderately or severely underweight, percentage: 2005 - 38.4%
- Children under 5 severely underweight, percentage: 2005 - 11.13%
- Population undernourished, number of people: 2002 - 31, 000, 002
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/
World Health Organization website:
Country profile, areas of work, news and events, resources, and more.
http://www.who.int/countries/eth/en/
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you use to change the world" -
Nelson Mandela
(1918- )
100% of donations benefit Ehtiopian children and their families
Project Ethiopia has 501(c)(3) statusJudy & Dennis pay for all administrative and travel costs.
We buy local & hire local to benefit local economy
Success:
Trachoma treatment for all of our villages!
Trachoma can be cured with a one-time dosage of the anitbiotic zithromax made by Pfizer. In 2007, the Carter Center provided cures for all of the children from our three villages.
Trachoma is the leading preventable cause of blindness. The infection causes a thickening of the inside eyelid which curls the eyelashes inward to scar the cornea and result in blindness.
In Walaji Elementary School, more than 90% of the students have trachoma.
In Bacha Elementary and Dangla Riverside Elementary School, over 80% of the students have trachoma.
What does it take to improve the life of a child?
For as little as 7 pennies, you can help!
- $4.70 for a school uniform
- $1.63 for school supplies for a year
- $0.07 for a bar of soap
- $1 for a reading book
- $35 for a triple desk
- $10 for a bench
- $2,300 for school well
- $365 for piped water for a school well
- $0.40 for drinking bottle
- $12,000 for school latrine
- $15 for soccer ball
- $1 for jump rope
- $17.50 for a white cane
- $4.50 for a ream of Braille paper
- $35 for a beehive
- $2 for a sickle for the women or child to weed and harvest
- $78 for a family latrine
- $400 for a concrete floor
- $2,100 for a village well
Other School News:
- Microscope supplies for the high school
- Telephone connection for a school
- School library books
- 25 white canes were given to blind children
How Project Ethiopia Works:
- Our greatest resource is community support
- We give money to NO ONE - we buy all materials & implement projects
- We buy local, and hire local to support local economy
- We are all volunteers! Judy & Dennis in North America, Awoke & Workineh in Ethiopia
- We hire at Ethiopian wages or villagers volunteer their labor so they all benefit
When spiders unite they can tie up a lion
- Ethiopian proverb
Project Ethiopia c/o Interfaith Community Church 1763 NW 62nd Street, Seattle, WA 98107
Project Ethiopia has 501(c)3 status so US donations are tax deductible.
