With the rising cost of food, another
100-130 million more people will be pushed into deep poverty.
Source:
World Bank
and World Food Program
10 million people die
every year from hunger and
hunger-related diseases. Almost half of the victims are children.
Source:
The United Nations' World Food Programme
An estimated 1.2 billion people struggle
to live on less than a dollar a day. A total 2.7 billion people
live on less than
$2 a day.
Source:
UN Millennium Project
300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa, almost
half the region's population, live on less than $1 a day.
Source:
The 2006 Human Development
Report
Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in fragile states
and territories,
defined as those with very weak institutions and poor policies.
These areas are home to 9 percent of the population
living in developing countries, but nearly 27 percent of the extreme
poor. These places are often sources of war, terrorism and refugee
crises. Source:
World Bank, Global Monitoring Report 2007
An estimated 250 million preschool children are
vitamin A deficient. An estimated 250,000 to 500,000 vitamin
A-deficient children become blind every year. Half of them die within
12 months of losing their sight. This is easily corrected with an inexpensive vitamin supplement.
Girls and women are especially vulnerable to HIV
infection and to the impact of AIDS. Globally, more than half of all
people living with HIV are female.
Source:
UNICEF
Between 1990 and 2003,
the average life expectancy at birth in the world increased from
about 60 years to 68 years. However, the average life expectancy at birth in
Sub-Saharan Africa is currently only 46 years. Life expectancy has also
dropped dramatically in the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Source:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
The 2005 Human Development
Report
Over the last decade, the average primary completion rate (completing a
full course of primary schooling) has risen from 62 percent to 72
percent. Source:
World Bank, World Development Indicators 2007
If you
subtract foreign aid given for military or strategic reasons, the figure
may be only $13.94 billion, about 13 cents per day per American. Source: Bread
for the World
Everyone wants good opportunities for
themselves and their children
All
children should have good food, good education, and an active, happy
life
We
all need water to live
Working
at learning for a better life