I am currently reading The Poor Will Be Glad: joining the revolution to lift the world out of poverty by Peter Greer and Phil Smith. Here are just a few sobering facts on poverty for you all. These hit me hard one night...
~ approximately 850 million people go to bed hungry every night.
~ 11 million children die every year before reaching their 5th birthday.
~ 20% of the world has no access to clean water. Millions walk long distances to carry every drop of water to their homes.
~ Diarrhea (a preventable disease) kills between 1.6 and 2.5 million children every year.
~ In the least developed countries, the literacy rate is 51 percent.
~ Of the world's approx 6.6 billion people, approx 4 billion live on less than $4 per day.
~ 30,000 children die each day from hunger and preventable disease- 1 child every 3 seconds.
Come Lord Jesus! Come and meet these! Lift their burdens! Redeem your people! Come Lord Jesus, Come!
One of the little Rio girls I work with on a weekly basis.
A common form of transportation for a Rio family.
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