In India,
of every 1,000 babies born alive, 52 die before age 1,
nearly half the children younger than 5 are malnourished,
every year, 1.5 million children die before their 5th birthday because of unsafe water, inadequate sanitation, or poor hygiene,
30% of adult women are underweight,
70% of women can't read or write,
nearly 30% of all newborns have a low weight,
and about 46% of all children younger than 3 are small for their age.

Around the world,
every sixth child (ages 15-17) is engaged in child labour (218 million),
22,000 children die yearly in work-related accidents,
and 8.4 million children are trapped in slavery, trafficking, debt, bondage, prostitution, and pornography.

Every country and developing country harbours abusive child labour in some form.

Some of that is from Unicef, some of it is from Compassion International. Doubt the statistics if you want, but who would make all this up?

Keep your eyes open. Look for ways to make the world a better place. Love more. Share more. Change the world more.




Lydia