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Every day, Americans spend over 1 Billion Dollars dining out.
Every night, 799 million people go to sleep hungry.
American teens spend an average of $101.00 per week.
That could send two African children to school for a year.
Many African Women walk 6 miles a day for water that is not even clean.
On average, Americans walk 6 miles every month.
We could stop AIDS if we pushed hard.
Medicine to keep HIV/AIDS from spreading is less than $0.22
We could eliminate unclean water if we worked together.
$20.00 gives 2 people in Africa clean water for over 40 years.
We could end modern-day slavery if we believed we could.
We could accomplish so much if we actually did something.
You only have one life. How are you going to use it?
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"In the next 24 hours, diarrhea caused by unclean water and poor sanitation will claim the lives of 4,000 children"-- OXFAM
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"To the world, you are just one person. But to one person, you could be the world."
~ Unknown
HIV/AIDS
Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned by HIV/AIDS
6,100 children lose a parent or both from AIDS every day
4,100 children die in Sub-Saharan Africa each day
In Twichland Africa, 50% of the population is under the age of 15. Most of these kids are orphans.
Approximately 15.2 million children under age 18 have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Of these, 12 million live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Each day, 1,500 children worldwide become infected with HIV, the vast majority of them newborns.
To date about 65 million people have been infected with HIV, and AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981.
About 17.3 million women comprise nearly half the total number of people living with HIV, and 76 percent (13.2 million) of women with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Africa is home to 69 percent of the AIDS-infected population and has only 1.8 percent of the world's health-care workers.
About 11,000 new HIV infections occur daily worldwide. Of those, 50 percent are women and more than 40 percent are young people ages 15-24.
Approximately 9.8 million young people, ages 15-24, are living with HIV/AIDS.
EDUCATION
Of the 22 countries where more than half the population is illiterate, 15 are in Africa.
About 75 percent of children out of primary school in developing countries have mothers who did not go to school.
An estimated 130 million of the world's 15- to 24- year-olds cannot read or write.
Nearly 115 million children are out of school. Globally, some 53 percent of the children out of primary school are girls, meaning that for every 100 boys out of school, 115 girls are in the same situation.
