Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Wednesday Wisdom


Statistics from World Challenge...

6,571,497,332 people now live on the earth

1,200,000,000 people live on 23 cents a day

2,000,000,000 people have no electricity

80% of all people live in substandard housing

1,000,000,000 people are without safe drinking water

Every 16 seconds someone dies of hunger

57,000,000 people died in 2006

10,500,000 of those were children under 5 y.o.

14,000,000 children were orphaned because of HIV/AIDS

2,000,000 children have died as the result of armed conflict during the last 10 years

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