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Welcome to the website of JUST HELP Foundation. Help us fight extreme
poverty and make this world a better place. Help us help the
under-privileged children of the developing countries. Help us help them
become self-sufficient.
** Hafiz Iqbal Surgery Appeal **
Urgent appeal
to save his life. He urgently needs a kidney transplant. This poor child
has no funds to do the operation even though his mother will donate one
of her kidneys. We aim to help save this poor child's life and the
mother for donating her kidney. Please
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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..
JUST HELP Foundation would like to thank everyone for taking the time to
read the real facts of poverty and understanding the need to act.
Hopefully you have donated generously and will do so regularly. Every
penny counts. We hope
we have made a difference to society. |