600 million children live in absolute poverty.
30,000 children die each day due to poverty. That is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year.
300 million are children who go to bed hungry every day.
150 million children live on the streets, and the number is rapidly increasing.
400 million children have no access to safe water.
HELP MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are luckier than 3 billion people in the world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of the world.
If you have money in the bank, in your purse or spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8 percent of the world's wealthy.
If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
- Anonymous
