Easily Forgotten

The Guardian wrote a great article today addressing what most of us in the international orphan care arena see first hand everyday, that is the slowdown of financial aid to developing nations like Ethiopia.  While we are absorbing an incredibly bad economic forecast we often forget about how the rest of the world is reacting to our financial meltdown.  The article produced some incredibly devastating numbers and there is no surprise in the fact that children will be the hardest hit.

The study also highlights wider human development impacts, including the prospect of an increase of between 200,000 and 400,000 in infant mortality. Child malnutrition, already a rising trend, will be one of the main drivers of higher child death rates. "Millions of children face the prospect of long-term irreversible cognitive damage as a result of the financial crisis," says Montjourides.

 Psalm 10

17 O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
18 to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.