1' Extreme Poverty

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1. Extreme Poverty

• Average Gross National Income for every man,
  women, and child in America is 35,060. World
  Development Bank, 2003.
• Of the 24 mostly Western Developed Nations
  (including NA, Western Europe, Australia New
  Zealand etc.) Population of 900 million, the GNI
  is 27,000 USD
• Compare this to the fact that 1.2 billion people
  live on under 1.00 a day and 2.7 billion people
  live on under 2.00 USD a day.

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1. Extreme Poverty

• 500 million people are hungry and another 500
  million are so poor that they dont consume
  enough food to render them productive.
• Because of poverty 33,000 children (mostly
  under-five-year-olds) die every day due to
  preventable diseases diarrhea, measles,
  malaria, and malnutrition that is more than one
  child dying every 3 seconds.
• 55 of all child deaths (17 million deaths a
  year) are just because the children are hungry.
• Poverty is at the root of most of that which
  contributes to 'children becoming at risk'.

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Regions of the WorldPopulation of the World
6,314,000,000 Nations of the World 193
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3. Child Labor/Slavery

• There are more slaves today than were seized from
  Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic
  slave trade.
• 250 million children are forced to work
  worldwide, some as slaves and some to support
  families.
• 170 million children are working in hazardous
  conditions and unbearable hours.

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4. Sexual Exploitation The Sex Trade

• World Vision estimates that between 10 to 14
  million children are victims of the sex trade.
• An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked
  every year, and 2 million children, mainly girls,
  are believed to be exploited

• through the commercial sex trade.
• Of the one million prostitutes in Thailand 80
  are under 18.
• In Zambia 2/3rds of all child prostitutes are
  AIDS orphans and then they get AIDS themselves.

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5. AIDS and Plagues

• Of the 22 million people who have died of AIDS,
  4.5 million of them have been children.
• Presently there are 11 million AIDS orphans in
  the Sub Sahara. That is a staggering 10, or one
  in every ten children is an orphan. This is twice
  as many as society can care for.
• By 2010 there could be as many as 20 million AIDS
  orphans in the Sub Sahara region.
• In South Africa, 50 of all the teenage girls who
  are now 15 years old, will be dead of AIDS in ten
  years.

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GLOBAL ESTIMATES FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN, END 2003
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6. War Affected Children

• Women and children usually comprise 80 of these
  refugee populations.
• More than 1 million children have been orphaned
  or separated from their families as a result of
  war.
• Presently 300,000 children soldiers, some as
  young as eight, are exploited in armed conflicts
  and fighting some one elses war.

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7. Religious Persecution

• Muslims in Myanmar have been denied citizenship,
  had their land confiscated, and have been
  compelled to provide forced labour.
• More than 10 Million Hindus have had to flee
  Bangladesh in the face of sustained persecution
  and periodic riots.
• 200 million Christians suffer torture, prison,
  and persecution for no other crime than that they
  call Jesus Lord.