Child+Poverty

Children are our future.
2.1 billion children live in the world, making up 36 per cent of the world's population. The love and care provided for them today by Compassion will determine the kind of world we have tomorrow. Tragically, of the 132 million children born each year, one in four is born into a family that exists on less than $2 CAD a day. In developing countries, one in three is born into abject poverty - conditions of almost unimaginable suffering and need. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJv7SQ9Wvg&NR=1

====Out of every 100 children ====
 * 27 suffer from malnutrition in their first five years of life
 * 25 are not immunised against any diseases
 * 18 have no access to clean drinking water
 * 39 live without adequate sanitation
 * 18 never go to school (of these, 11 are girls)
 * 25 who begin 1st grade do not reach 5th grade
 * 20 never learn how to read (of these, 13 are girls)