Some facts and statistics compiled by various groups...
-About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five. (United Nations)
-Every 30 seconds an African child dies of malaria-more than one million child deaths a year. (UN Millennium Project)
-Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable diseases - that's over 30,000 per day and one every 3 seconds. (Millennium Campaign)
-More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day...300 million are children. Of these 300 million children, only eight percent are victims of famine or other emergency situations. More than 90 percent are suffering long-term malnourishment and micronutrient deficiency. (UN Millennium Project)
-Five million people, mostly children, die each year from water-borne diseases. (UN Millennium Project)
-600 million children live in absolute poverty. (Millennium Campaign)
-30,000 children die each day due to poverty. That is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year. (Unicef)
-Number of children in the world: 2.2 billion. Number in poverty: 1 billion (every second child) (Global Issues)
-10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (same as children population in France, Germany, Greece and Italy) (Global Issues)
-15 million children orphaned due to HIV/AIDS (similar to the total children population in Germany or United Kingdom) (Global Issues)
-More than 10 percent of children in developing countries die before the age of five. (CARE)Around 270 million children have no access to healthcare services. (World Vision New Zealand)
-The number of youth in the world surviving on less than a dollar a day in 2000 was an estimated 238 million, almost a quarter (22.5 per cent) of the world’s total youth population. (United Nations Population Fund)
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THANKS FOR LETTING US KNOW SO CAN THIS ORGANIZATIONS NOW SUPPORT OR JUST DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE OR IT WILL BE ANOTHER PAPER SESSION DESCRIBING SOLUTIONS AND NOT IMPLEMENTING THEM
Life is the greatest of the world's favours and being alive is the best occurrence. We all have what it takes to enjoy it and hey we never worked to be given life. What a free gift. I worked and spent a lot of time with W.K Joseph and I know what he believes. In my path of existence one lesson from my mentor Oby Obyerodhyambo, that "... life gives you the exam before the lesson". A tricky situation isn't it? Hey, here is the leakage. True there are moments when your limits are put to test, but it is also extremely true that it is just a temporary setback. Think of what worst situation you ever were in that today you still are in. Now, Live to your satisfaction by setting achievable targets, Keep your focus (MUST) on what you perceive as "the good things in life" and move patiently towards them. Finally, while at the rock bottom, just know you are at the end and if you got to move whichever way, then it will be upwards. And while on top, keep your balance, but appreciate the next direction you might move, in order to check your gabions. Please let me know if you think like me coz am a really happy person.
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tony i think i am like you and very happy at that..i am a great believer in self-definition of what constitutes happiness and then judging myself by it and it really works! i am not about to judge myself based on standards set by others..so tony..kudos!..and i also want to concur with zenny about the kind of stuff that NGOs bog us with..all those statistics, and doomsday stuff..i mean..what are we supposed to do? describing the problem isnt enough and i think if individuals did their bit, we would slowly creep out of situations that are so aptly described!
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