Our Global Village

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Our Global Village

• If there were only 100 people
• in the entire world

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Our village has neighborhoods

• One neighborhood has 61 Asians
• Another has 13 Africans
• 12 Europeans are in towns
• 8 Hispanics live in a barrio
• 5 Americans in the suburbs

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We speak many languages

• 22 villagers speak Chinese
• 9 speak English
• 9 converse in Hindi
• 7 talk in Spanish
• 4 each speak Bengali Arabic
• 3 chat in Russian or Portuguese
• 2 each speak in Japanese, French
  German

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Our village worships many Gods

• 32 villagers are Christians
• 20 are Muslims
• 15 are atheists or not religious
• 13 are Hindu
• 11 practice a folk religion
• 6 are Buddhists
• 1 is a Jew

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Our village is divided equally between women and
men
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Men in our village live 61 years Women live 3
years longer
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30 of us are children under the age of 15
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25 villagers are women of childbearing age
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63 of us have jobs 37 do not
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1 villager has a college education 17 of us
cannot read or write
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33 people in our village live in poverty housing
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18 villagers do not have safe, clean water in
their homes
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40 villagers do not have a sanitary toilet
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10 rich people earn 54 of the villages total
income
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20 of our mothers, daughters and sisters have
been raped
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Our village spends 10 times more on weapons than
on well-being
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20 villagers survive on 1.00/day 51 get by on
2.00/day
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70 of us are hungry every day Some of us are not
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One Year in Our Village

• 3,000 people died at the World Trade Center in
  New York (2001)
• 300,000 people died from a tsunami in the Indian
  Ocean (2004)
• 11 million children died from starvation (every
  year)

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• If you keep your food in a refrigerator
• And your clothes in a closet,
• If you have a roof over your head
• And a bed to sleep in,
• You are richer than 75 of the
  worlds
  population.

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Acknowledgements

• Data Sources at MicroCredit Enterprises.
• Photo credits Freedom from Hunger, Jacob Holdt
  Gallery, KrystaalTal Gallery, Pan American Health
  Organization, Peter Langer Media Group, United
  Nations, Webshots Gallery, World Bank.
• Special Thanks to the book If The World Were A
  Village for the concept.