THE CHILDREN
Born without a chance.
Number of Children in the World: 2.2 Billion
Number of Children living in Poverty: 1 Billion
Child Poverty Statistics
Nearly 1 in 4 children live on less than $1 a day.
400 million children have no access to clean water.
(That is one of every 5 children in the world.)
30,000 children die each day from poverty.
An estimated 200 million children live in the streets.
1.2 million children are trafficked each year.
(For labour or as sex slaves.)
...and that just covers the kids. Their parents and grandparents are living in the same conditions...if they're lucky enough to still be alive.
What are WE doing to IMPROVE the world
we inherited from our parents?
What are YOU doing?
Here's yet another way YOU can take action and be part of changing lives across the globe...
Check out Charity Water & how YOU can help! Click Here!
www.feedthechildren.org (Great non-profit organization as well!!)
I'd like to meet:
Genocide in Darfur
Darfur is the biggest humanitarian crisis on the planet.
Over the past three years, Sudanese forces and the government-back Janjaweed militia have targeted the civilian populations of specific ethnic groups. They have burned and terrorized hundreds of villages, killing over 400,000 people and raping thousands of women and young girls in the process. Those who survive the attacks on their villages are forced to flee, enduring severe shortages of food and clean water.
Make no mistake, what is happening in Darfur is genocide. It is ethnic cleansing.
Darfur by the Numbers:
- 400,000+ dead since February 2003
- 2 million people displaced from their homes
- 80% of children under 5 have severe malnutrition
Visit one of the following sites to learn more about Darfur or to contribute to the cause.
- www.invisiblechildren.com
- www.savedarfur.org
- www.darfurgenocide.org
- www.projectdarfur.org
- www.lifenets.net
An Inconvenient Truth
If you care about the world you live in...
If you care about you children and grandchildren...
If you care about the future...
You should watch this movie.
Music:
A CHILD DIES
every 3 seconds
as a result of poverty...
For the price of one missile
a school full of
HUNGRY CHILDREN
could eat lunch everyday
FOR 5 YEARS.
Movies:
We have the food...
We have the money...
We have the ability...
TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
But do we have the political willpower to be leaders for true change? Do we have the moral character to overcome our prejudices and make the world a better place for all?
CHANGE CAN HAPPEN.
CHILD POVERTY LINKS:
Learn More & Start Helping Today
- Free the Children
- Save the Children
- UNICEF
- Stop Child Poverty
Television:
THE MIDDLE EAST
Israel & Palestine: The Conflict
It is not about terrorism.
It is about land.
It is about resources.
It is about religion.
The death toll of
Palestinian CIVILIANS
outnumbers the
ENTIRE Israeli death toll.
Palestinian refugees
make up the largest portion
of the refugee population
in the world.
Israel
recieves more U.S. aid
than the entire
continent of Africa.
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