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When I was hungry – facts

1. Half the world lives on less than $2 a day. One on four lives on less than a $1 a day. The cost of food consumes 50-80% of this daily income for the 3 billion living in extreme poverty.
2. More than 840 million people in the world are malnourished — 799 million of them live in the developing world.
3. More than 153 million of the world’s malnourished people are children under the age of 5.
4. Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
5. Six million children under the age of 5 die every year as a result of hunger.

6. While every country in the world has the potential of growing enough food to feed itself, 54 nations currently do not produce enough food to feed their populations, nor can they afford to import the necessary commodities to make up the gap. Most of these countries are in sub-Saharan Africa.

7. An estimated 923 million people in the world go to bed hungry every night.

8. 146 million children under age 5 are underweight

1. 10 million children under age 5 die every year, over half of hunger-related causes

10. 3/4 of all deaths in children under age 5 in the developing world are caused by malnutrition or related diseases.

When I was Thirsty

1. 1 in 6 people lacks safe drinking water

2. Lack of clean water kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.

3. Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease

4. $10 will give a child clean water for life

5. 10 billion dollars would solve all of the world’s lack of clean water issue (Americans spent 450 billion celebrating Christmas)

6. 1.8 million People die every year from water-borne illnesses. That includes 3,900 children a day.

7. Of the 42,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water and a lack of basic sanitation, 90% are children under 5 years old.

8. Many people in the developing world, usually women and children, walk more than three hours every day to fetch water that is likely to make them sick.

9. OUR PLANET IS 70% WATER.97.5% OF THAT IS SALTWATER.
THIS MEANS ONLY 2.5% IS AVAILABLE FOR THE 6 BILLION PEOPLE ON THE PLANET TODAY.

10. Many communities in developing nations often have a plentiful supply of clean water just below the ground, but no way to get to it.

When I was without a home

1. Today there are estimated over 143 million orphans in the world.
That is enough children to go three times around the world at the equator.

2. If you had these orphans hold hands in a line, you would see over 1,700 orphans per mile.  If you were to follow that line of Orphans holding hands, driving 60 mph, you could drive 24 hours a day seeing 1,700 orphans every mile, hour after hour, day after day without stopping for over two months, and you would still see orphans holding hands.

1. Sub-Saharan Africa, with 48.3 million orphans, has the highest proportion of children who are orphans at 12%
2. Asia has the largest total number of orphans with 73.7 million orphans, which represents 6% of all children
3. Latin America and the Caribbean has 10.7 million orphans, also representing 6% of all children.ⁱⁱⁱ
4. Over 15 million children have lost a parent due to AIDS, and that number is expected to rise to over 20 million by 2010.
5. Without AIDS, the total number of orphans in sub-Saharan Africa would have declined between 1990 and 2010. AIDS, however, will push the number of orphans in the region from 9 million to more than 10 million by 2010.
6. Orphaned children are much more likely than non-orphans to be working in commercial agriculture, as street vendors, in domestic service and in the sex trade.
7. Orphans are more vulnerable and at risk of becoming victims of violence, exploitation, trafficking, discrimination, or other abuses.

10. Over one-third of Americans have ever considered adopting, but no more than 2 percent of Americans have actually adopted.

When I was sick

1. Billions of people are suffering in the world from diseases that we know a cure for.

2. Each day in the developing world, 16,000 children die from hunger or preventable diseases such as diarrhea, acute respiratory infections, or malaria.

3. Sixty percent of these deaths are from hunger and malnutrition.

4. Of the 30 top countries with the least number of physicians per population, 26 are in Sub-Sahara Africa.

5. There are about 300 doctors for every 100,000 people in America. In Tanzania, Malawi and Niger, there are only 2 doctors per 100,000 people.

6. Approximately 39.5 million people are living with HIV/AIDS in the world. Of this figure, more than 2 0ut 3 live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

1. In half of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa, per capita economic growth is estimated to be falling each year as a direct result of AIDS.  The majority of those falling sick with AIDS are young adults who normally harvest crops.

8. In the developing world, 20 million low-birth-weight babies are born each year. They are at risk of dying in infancy or suffering lifelong physical or cognitive disabilities.

9. Every 30 Seconds a Child Dies of Malaria. While Malaria was eradicated from US over 50 years ago, 40% of the world is still at risk.

10. In Zimbabwe, the reported numbers of deaths from the recent Cholera outbreak reached over 774 by December 22^nd. The suspected # of cases is over 15,000 and expected to rise as high as 60,000.

Imprisoned

1. 27 Million People Are Enslaved Today. This is more than double the number of Africans who were enslaved during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. There are more slaves today than another other time in history of world.
2. 8.4 million children are enslaved through trafficking, debt bondage, forced labor for recruitment for armed conflict, prostitution, pornography, and other illegal activities.
3. UNICEF values the global market of child trafficking at over $12 billion a year with over 1.2 million child victims.
4. It’s been estimated that 2 children per minute are trafficked for sexual exploitation.
5. Child Trafficking is the fastest growing crime in the world. It is the second largest transnational crime in the world just after drugs. It recently surpassed gun running.
6. A drug dealer can sell a little bag of drugs on the street just once.
   A weapons dealer can sell a little hand gun on the street just once.
   A trafficker can sell a little kid on the street 10, 15, and 20 a day; day after day after day.
7. Widespread Child Trafficking occurs wherever there is ONE of three things happening: Extreme Poverty, Political Chaos, or War.
8. 800,000 people are trafficked across national borders and countless millions within their own countries.
9. 80% of transnational trafficking victims are women and girls. Half are minors.
10. Surveys show that 90% of all prostitutes in the world desire to escape.