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The World's Children

• More than ten million children still die each year from preventable causes. That's 30,000 a day - or one every three seconds.
• One billion lack access to safe drinking water.
• 30 million are not vaccinated against diseases that could be prevented.
• Over 150 million still suffer from malnutrition.
• More than 250 million children have to work so that their families can eat.
• 125 million children do not go to school - the majority girls.
• 100 million have been orphaned as the result of HIV/AIDS.
• Every year at least half a million children go partially or totally blind because of vitamin A deficiency.
• 1.2 million girls under 18 are trafficked for prostitution each year - with over 1,000,000 children working in the sex trade in Asia alone.
• Some 300,000 children serve as soldiers in conflicts spanning 50 countries.
• Two million children have been killed and six million permanently injured in conflicts in the past ten years.

Taken by somebody else from Peter Meadows' Rich Thinking About the World's Poor.

posted by Susan @ 4:59 pm