Just Some Facts....

Over 22,000 children die every day around the world.
That is equivalent to:

• 1 child dying every 4 seconds
• 15 children dying every minute
• A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring almost every 10 days
• A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring almost every 10 days
• An Iraq-scale death toll every 18–43 days
• Just under 8.1 million children dying every year
• Some 88 million children dying between 2000 and 2009

From: http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty

~Julia Wilkie