Do children really need MY help?

Here are some statistics:

• More than 15 million children have been orphaned by AIDS. *
• Six million children die every year as a result of hunger or malnutrition. **
• 134 million children between the ages of 7 and 18 have never been to school. ***
• 1.2 million children are believed to be exploited through the commercial sex trade. *
• Approximately 246 million children work. ****
• Approximately 171 million children work in hazardous conditions. *
• An estimated 8.4 million children work under the most extreme of circumstances: forced into debt bondage or other forms of slavery, prostitution, pornography, armed conflict or other illicit activities. *

Sources:

* UNICEF State of the World's Children 2006

** Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

*** Study done by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol

**** International Labor Organization