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    Poverty facts

    April 20th, 2009 by admin

    According to UNICEF:

  • One- half the world’s population — 3 billion people – live on less than $2 a day.
  • There are 2.2 billion children in the world — 1.1 billion live in poverty.
  • 30,000 children die every single day due to poverty. “Every year, 11 million children will die quietly, in some of the poorest villages on earth.”
  • Nearly 1 billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their name.
  • Over 253 million children — as young as 5 years old — work in Child Labor.
  • Water problems affect half of humanity – 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.
  • The scarcity of water is causing hundreds of millions of people to migrate for survival. Migration is considered one of the defining global issues of the early 21st century, as more and more people are on the move today than at any other point in human history.

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    One Response

    1. Fred Dupont

      April 20th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

      We have, for the first time in history, the ability and the technology to all make it, at a higher standard of living than the kings of times past… it can now be you AND me, the future does not have to be you OR me.
      Why don’t we know? Why aren’t we told?

      There is no scarcity of water – there is scarcity of clean potable water.

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