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There are almost 7 billion people living on Earth.
3 billion of them live on less than $2 a day
About 2 million live on less than $1 a day
There are 2.2 billion children in the world today. There will be more tomorrow.
75 percent of people in the world don't have access to potable water, while more than 1.1 billion people in developing countries don't have enough access to water.
12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water. They do not live in Third World countries.
2.6 billion people don't have basic sanitation facilities.
About a third of people on Earth don't have electricity.
The Cold, Hard Result of This Poverty:
1.4 million people die each year because they don't have access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.
26,500-30,000 children die died today because of poverty. According to UNICEF, they die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.
The 21st century started with more than illiterate people - people unable to read a book or sign their name.
In 2000, 1 percent of the total world expenditure on weapons of war is all that's needed to put every child in the world in a school. It didn't happen.
Source: United Nations
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About half of the world's hunger lives in the Indian subcontinent. Another 40 percent lives in Africa and Asia. The largest groups of remaining, undernourished people live in Latin America or other Third World countries. Children in these developing countries do not receive the nutrition in their growing years that we take for granted, stunting and affecting physical development and general health for their entire life. The problem is worsened by recent, alarming increase in food prices around the world. It is easy to feel helpless when you watch people around the world suffer. The current global food crisis is being called a "silent tsunami" that could force an additional 100 million people on every continent into hunger. Your one gift could help ease the pain of hunger of thousands. 