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The devastating truth is that: 10.5 million children still die every year worldwide; 29,000 children under the age of five die every day, nearly 4,000 simply because they lack safe water and sanitation; 12 million children worldwide have been orphaned by AIDS; 146 million children regularly go hungry; 640 million lack adequate shelter; 250 million work as cheap labour, 2 million as prostitutes; Conflict has claimed the lives of 2 million children in the last ten years, leaving 6 million wounded and disabled; 300,000 children worldwide are forced to carry a gun; and 72 million children are still out-of-school. See also: UNESCO Institute for Statistics UNICEF - The State of the World's Children UNDP Human Development Report >> You can help! How to donate ...


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