survival of the poor

- 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day 1

2
- 22,000 children die each day due to poverty
- 27-28 percent of all children in developing
countries are estimated to be
underweight or stunted
- Nearly a billion people
entered the 21st century
3
unable to read a book
- <1% of what the world spent
every year on weapons was needed
to put every child into school by
the year 2000 and yet it didnt happen 4

1
World Bank, August 2008
2
http://www.globalissues.org/article/715/today-21000-children-died-around-the-world
3
The State of the Worlds Children, 1999, UNICEF
4
State of the World, Issue 287 - Feb 1997, New Internationalist