Every 3 seconds, somewhere in our world, a child dies because they are too poor to live.
Every 15 seconds, one of those children is dying from something as preventable as diarrhea.
In an era of unprecedented global wealth, 4 out of every 5 people on the planet do not have access to running water.
Almost half the world’s population, 2.7 billion people subsist on less than $2 a day.
One million people every year die from malaria – a mosquito bite.
In Africa, 5,500 die every day from AIDS.
The statistics on Global Poverty are endless and mind-numbing.
But there is hope and we are the generation that can end exterminate poverty forever.