Global+Issues

Global Issues Worth Caring About[[image:1worldmap4-med.jpg width="283" height="214"]]

 * ==Poverty==
 * ==Hunger==
 * ==Environment/Global Warming==
 * ==Health==
 * ==Education/Literacy==
 * ==Water==
 * ==Children's Rights==
 * ==Peace/War==


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 * Poverty**


 * ======Almost 11 million children under the age of five die each year from preventable causes. Almost all (98 percent) of these children live in the developing world, with 45 percent in sub-Saharan Africa.======
 * ======About 2.7 billion people struggle to live on less than two dollars a day.======
 * ======Today, more than one billion people around the world live on less than one dollar a day.======
 * Education**


 * ======For every year of quality education a child gets, their adult earning potential goes up by 10 percent.======
 * ======Of the estimated 700 million primary-school-age children in the world today, roughly 120 million are not in school.======
 * ======133 million young people can’t read or write.======


 * Water**


 * 1.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation facilities.
 * Two million children die each year from infections spread by dirty water or the lack of toilets.
 * Health**


 * Every day, 8,000 people die of AIDS-related conditions. This is equal to about three million deaths per year.
 * HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of premature mortality in sub-Saharan Africa and the fourth-biggest killer worldwide.

Information obtained from _[|_http://we.freethechildren.com/learn-facts__]