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Many children in the developing countries are dying due to pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, HIV/AIDS and malnutrition. These children die because they are poor and do not have access to the basic immunizations, health services, lack of vitamins and food and clean drinking water.

We have compiled some statistics regarding the poor and the needy. Get ready to be shocked.

THE FACTS...

• A child dies every 30 seconds from malaria. That's over a million a year.
  Source UNICEF.
• Every day 25,000 children die from water-related diseases.
  Source: ActionAid website May2007
• 30,000 children die each day due to poverty, that's 210,000 children each week or just under 11 million children under five each year.
  Source: UNICEF.
• One in ten children in the developing world die before they are five years old.
  Source: ONE Campaign.
• More than one billion people do not have access to clean water.
  Source: ONE Campaign.
• Over 120 million children out of education worldwide and still rising.
  Source: UNICEF 2005.
• Worldwide, more than one billion people currently live below the international poverty line, earning less than $1 per day.
  Source: The World Bank - Mar2006.
• In 2005, 10.1 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday. Almost all of these occurred in developing countries, majority in Africa and Asia.
  Source: UNICEF 2006.
• Over 120 million children are too poor to go to school.
  Source: ActionAid website May2007
• 170 million children worldwide are malnourished.
  Source: ActionAid website May2007
• In Africa, Over 40 million children do not get the opportunity to go to school.
  Source: stampoutpoverty website May2007.
• Two-thirds of the world's poorest people live in Asia and 800 million people there live on less than a dollar a day.
  Source: stampoutpoverty website May2007
• In Costa Rica: banana price wars between UK supermarkets have meant that women working on plantations that supply Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s are forced out of regular work into casual piece-rate jobs for lower wages. Wages are so low – as little as 33 pence an hour - that women have told ActionAid they cannot afford to take time off when planes spray dangerous pesticides onto the plantations.
  Source: ActionAid website May2007
• In India: pressure from UK supermarkets  to drive down prices has led to an explosion in black market cashew nut processing plants where women earn as little as 30 pence a day and suffer permanent damage to their hands from corrosive acids. 
  Source: ActionAid website May2007
• In Bangladesh: young women work for as little as five pence an hour to make clothes for Asda and Tesco while being forced to work long hours, up to 14 hours a day for weeks on end.
  Source: ActionAid website May2007
• In Bangladesh: Number of people living below $1 a day: 49.6%
  Source: Government of Bangladesh/UNDP 2005

These are just some of the facts we have gathered from various sources. Hopefully these facts will make you realise the reality of the world. Everything isn't what it seems. 

Thank you..