Next Ethiopia Visit

24th October 2008

Duration: 2 weeks


Website Redesign

The website has now moved to a more formal content management system.

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Written by Vishnu V Chandrabalan   
Wednesday, 05 March 2008 16:00

The website has now moved to a more formal content management system.

Update: 06/05/2008
Issues with "Contact Us" form have been largely resolved. Please inform if you have any further problems.

The original website was setup using Wordpress and had served its purpose well. However, as the scope of the link's activities increase and content increases as well, I felt that a more robust solution was needed.

After considerable research, Joomla has been chosen as the content management system. This mature and multi-award winning open-source project is ideally suited for our purposes. It has been a breeze to setup and customise and will be easy to maintain as well. This also makes more sense as this website was never a blog - what Wordpress is best suited for.

The content is organised similar to the old website. However, the new website will provide more information on recent and upcoming activities. It will also allow visitors to contact relevant members of the link through the 'Contact Us' page.

Most content has been moved across. However, some of the visit reports from 2006 or earlier will be moved to the new site over the next couple of weeks.

- Vishnu V Chandrabalan

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 May 2008 19:39 )
 

Maternal Mortality

Ethiopia has one of the highest maternal as well as infant mortality rates in the world.

Total expenditure per capita on health (Intl $, 2004):

Ethiopia : $21 >>

UK : $2560 >>

Life Expectancy at Birth

Men on average live for only 50 yrs and women for 53 yrs. In UK men and women live for 77yrs and 81yrs respectively.