- Over 22,000
children under the age of five die each day. [ref.] This death toll is
equivalent to the World Trade Center attacks occurring 8 times a day.
You
might ask why this is such a big deal, people die every day. When hearing
“22,000 children die each day” you must remember the rarity of children dying
of natural causes. Realistically, if a child dies it is from some kind of
external threat. Let’s do something to alleviate the external threats such as
poverty surrounding the world’s children.
-
more than 22,000 children under five die each day [ref.]
- 26% of the world
is living below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day. [ref.]
There
is no reason why the world’s wealth should be so unevenly distributed. Many of
these nations living on such meager money per day provide many of the products
we enjoy in our comfortable lives.
- 26% of the world is
living below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day [ref.]
- Over 2.6 billion
people live in unsanitary conditions, putting them at a much higher risk of
disease or infection. [ref.]
Everyone has seen
the picture on T.V. of the little starving child with the swollen belly. This
belly is not due to starvation, it is caused by parasitic worms in their
intestines. When in the intestines the parasites consume whatever food the
starving child may be able to eat. The world is very knowledgeable on issues of
sanitation and water purification, this must be something we translate to these
nations in great need. [ref.]
- Nearly one billion people alive today
– one in every six human beings – are slum dwellers, and that number is likely
to double in the next thirty years [ref.]
- Over 370 Million
of the world’s children will never make it to the 5th grade. [ref.]
Many children have
to leave school at an early age because their family needs them to work making
it even harder for individuals to break the cycle of poverty due to their lack
of education.
- Nearly a Billion
people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.[ref.]
With the ease of communication in the world today there is no reason that any able person should not have the ability to read or write. Let’s fight world poverty and greatly lower this number by the beginning of the 22nd century.