About Ethiopia

 Life expectancy in Ethiopia 39

Psalm 68:5-5
About the Cote Family
years for males and 42 years for
females.
Kelly and Jessica have been married for Father to the fatherless….
 Ethiopia's neonatal mortality rate is
one of the highest in the world -
almost 9 years and have 2 beautiful God places the lonely in
49/1000
 Ethiopia is one of the poorest
daughters. Kelly spent 8 years in the Navy, families…
countries in the world. Almost
82% of the population lives on less
but still works closely with the government
than $1 a day.
and military as a civilian contractor.

Jessica stays home taking care of their girls

and homeschooling. Everyone in the

family is excited to see where God is

leading them on this journey to Africa.

The Cote Family

 Ethiopia is home to 4-6 million Jessica, Kelly, Alexie, and

orphans, or 12% of all children.
 That is the same number of Contact Information
children under age 18 who reside Emma
in Massachusetts, New York State, Kelly and Jessica Cote
and Washington DC combined. If
every parent in those places died 654 Bakers Branch Drive
tonight - that would be similar to
Ethiopia's orphan crisis. North Augusta, SC 29860
 More than half a million of these
were orphaned as a result of AIDS. 803-341-2773
 Only 42.7% age 15 and over can
read and write. http://our-journey-to-africa.blogspot.com
 Only 18 percent of children will
reach grade five. That means 82%
of children don't.

Why adopt?
God has placed this on our
hearts. We k n o w t h a t w e w a n t
a bigger family and we know
that there are children all
over the world that need a
f o r e v e r f a m i l y.
If only 7% of the 2 billion
Christians in the world would
show hope to a single orphan,
looking after the child in their
distress, there would effectively be
no more orphans. We can each do
something.
**(www.showhope.org)
How can you help?
1. Most importantly, pray!
Pray for us, our agency, and our little boy
that will soon join our family.
2. You can donate.
Our God is BIG and we know HE will
provide! You can see the complete cost
break down on our blog. You can also
safely donate on our blog or write check
out to Kelly or Jessica Cote. Thanks for all
your support!
3. Do you have a great fundraiser idea to
share with us? We are all ears, please share,
share, share!
4. Are you the very organized type, do you
love to plan events? Maybe you could do
more than just participate in a fundraiser,
we will accept any and ALL help ;)
5. What our blog for local fundraisers, yard
sales, bake sales, and such that you can
help support!
Some questions you may have:
 What adopt from Ethiopia? We
feel like God has led us to this
country, we know He already has
our child picked out!
 What age and gender are you
requesting? We are asking for a
boy 0-18 months old.
 How long will this process take?
We hope to have our son in a year!
 What is the total cost? About
$25,000 (possibly a little more
since we will probably need to
make two trips to Africa)
 How do you plan to raise the
money? We are sure that God will
fund what He has called us to. We
are asking Him daily to provide the
needs. In addition, we have had a
few yard sales, we are selling t-
shirts and coffee on our blog, and
we hope to have the financial
support of family, church family,
and friends.
 How quickly do you need the
money? We will need about
$12,000 by the end of August in
order to send our official
paperwork to Ethiopia.