Help Children In Need!
In this post, MicroGiving raises shocking alert to child poverty, hunger, education, and how to help children in need around the world.
Despite the state of the economy, we still manage to live a repulsively cushioned and comfortable life in the United States.
“26,000 – 30,000 children die everyday around the world”
UNICEF – Progress of Nations
The culprits of these preventable deaths are hunger, poverty, and disease & illness. It’s appalling that these tragedies hardly demand headline news! If the headlines won’t draw attention to these children in need, MicroGiving will. The following are alarming comprehensive statistics about disadvantaged children, followed by simple yet impactful ways that you can change these figures and help a child in need.
The Ugly Facts & Stats:
There are 2.2 billion children in the world, 1 billion live below poverty.
State of the World’s Children, UNICEF
Child Health:
1.9 billion out of 2.2 billion children live in 3rd world developing countries, and of these children:
- 1 in 3 children in need are homeless, living in filth ridden environments
- 1 in 5 children don’t have safe drinking water
- 1 in 7 disadvantaged children don’t have access to any sort of health provision
- 1.4 million children in need die every year from lack of sanitation, safe drinking water, and clean resources. State of the World’s Children, UNICEF
Child Hunger:
- Over 3 billion children in need barely survive on less than $1.00 a day. World Bank Development Indicators, 2008
- 3 out of 10 children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted. The bulk deficit of these poor children live in India. 2007 Human Development Report (HDR)
- In 2003 alone, 10.6 million children in need died before reaching their 5th birthday. (That’s the equivalent to the population of children in France, Italy, Germany, and Greece) State of the World’s Children, UNICEF
Child Labor:
- 218 million children are exploited in the child labor force, 132 million of these children in need are between the ages of 5 and 14
- 180 to 200 million disadvantaged children work in unsafe, hazardous conditions
- An estimated 3.5 hundred thousand children are soldiers (both girls and boys) Countries & Regions (The World Bank) – Data, projects, and research.
- Due to poverty, roughly 200,000 girls under the age of 14, are slaves in India. ECPAT International.
Child Education:
- “Less than 1% of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.” State of the World, Issue 287, New Internationalist
MicroGiving is embarking on a campaign to stop this, but we need your donations and support to help these children in need!
What your donation support will achieve:
- $1 will feed a hungry child
- $5 will feed his family, brothers, and sisters
- $10 will give a child access to clean drinking water
- $15 will give a child in need access to health provision
- $20 will give a disadvantaged child a quality education for 1 year
- Your impact will change a child’s world.
“They die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.” State of the World’s Children, UNICEF
Lets not forget. Lets help children. And together lets end poverty.
Visit MicroGiving’s India Fundraising page and let’s start changing the lives of needy children in India. Give on your own accord, or give as a gift in honor or in memory of someone. Let us never forget the forgotten!
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11. March 2009 at 4:34 pm :
How does the saying go?…..Children are our furture…..That’s all I have to say about that………….
………God Bless
11. March 2009 at 4:47 pm :
“If we don’t stand up for children, then we don’t stand for much”
-Marian Wright Edelman
11. March 2009 at 10:35 pm :
FEET
Take care of these little feet
One day thier going to be big feet
Before they take thier first step
Let’s direct, teach and nurture them
because one day they will
be ladies and men
That will be holding our future
when they will be directing, teaching,and nuturing us
Take a little change to help our children
So our children can make the right BIG Steps!
11. March 2009 at 11:55 pm :
I believe no matter how rough things are at home, we can always find a $1 help feed a starving child for a day. I’m sure that many who think their troubles are never ending, can find $10 at the end of the month to make sure a child has clean drinking water, something most of us can get anytime we want it, even if it’s just by filling a jug at a local gas station if our running water got cut off.
I’m sure if this blog post is promoted many others will see that even if we are struggling at home, we are a thousand times better off than a poverty stricken family in India and even the poverty level people of the US can help if we just open our eyes and realize our level of poverty is nothing like their level of poverty. Would we want to live that way for a year? Would we want to divide a single cup of rice cooked in dirty water between 5 hungry kids? I’m guessing not….and I think we can change things for them, because even if we only bring them to OUR level of poverty we have improved their lives by leaps and bounds.
12. March 2009 at 2:26 pm :
Man kinds treatment to some of our children is horrific!.
Hats off to Mircogiving for take a stand on this ugrent matter and providing some level of support to these helpless little people!
12. March 2009 at 5:19 pm :
“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.”
“Magic” Johnson
12. March 2009 at 5:29 pm :
Did you know:
India has more English speaking people than any other country in the world? Even the U.S.
Questions that bother me are:
Where are all these children coming from? Do the parents not know what they are doing? Do they not care to prevent a world of pain and death for the children they are bearing?
And the most important question:
What will change to prevent this from continuing or becoming worse?
12. March 2009 at 5:34 pm :
Another question is:
Does India have an adoption program for foreigners to adopt the unfortunate children there?
I know Steven Curtis Chapman has an adoption ministry dedicated to China, but I’m not sure how far they span.
12. March 2009 at 6:56 pm :
I just think that it is great that microgiving is helping these kids. i can’t believe those statistics, they are just awful.
13. March 2009 at 12:21 am :
JT, in response to this question “What will change to prevent this from continuing or becoming worse?”
Education for the children, something we often take for granted in America because all kids have free public education here. Next, educating the mothers of these children so they can earn a living to care for and educate their children. Educating some of the most at risk children is a project that Vital is working on.
You can’t always prevent children. We are thinking like people in different societies where birth control is accepted and easily obtained, abstinence is taught regularly. In other cultures having children is your duty and birth control is either unheard of or extremely difficult to obtain.
Only through good education for mother and child and trying to teach birth control and making it available will children stop being born into poverty.
In America every single day children are born to uneducated women who are not on birth control and already have children they are unable to provide for. We don’t see the horrors in America simply because these women can get on state or federal aid. If there was NO state/federal aid we would be seeing the same thing in America. We have no excuses here, our children are freely educated and birth control can be obtained free from Planned Parenthood programs….yet there are still so many children born to poor families and growing up on benefits in America.
14. March 2009 at 5:22 am :
I want say a little Prayer!!! God please bless the little ones, they can’t help or do anything for themselves. I will be sending something soon on this one!!!!
14. March 2009 at 5:57 am :
I had no idea just how many children around the world died each day. It breaks my heart. I think this has been a very educational thread for all of us.
16. March 2009 at 4:44 pm :
Thank you so much Elaine! Your prayers are uplifting and a great encouragement…
17. March 2009 at 6:13 pm :
Thank you for the informational reply:
“Education for the women and children”
It is good to know there is that effort being placed. It is somewhat relieving. I would never have thought birth control was big in India, but rather abstinence. Like you said, sometimes we can only see things from another point of view, but I can’t help to think about it and at least try to understand. Solving a problem blindly is not recommended, but trusting the right thing is being done by understanding those who can translate is hopeful.
I just can’t help feeling for the children who cannot control being born into poverty. I am passionate about the subject, and I have that initial frustration/anger towards those who are selfishly pursuing a temporary pleasure when they know what the outcome could result. I am not in anyway insinuating this is happening in India, but I know it happens because I became part of the problem for 2 weeks of my entire life over 2 years ago. I have been angry with myself and can blame no one else, but myself. I am feeling the repercussions of my action still while I continue to try to do the right thing for my daughter.
It furthers my passion and I apologize to anyone I’ve offended~
17. March 2009 at 8:14 pm :
JT –
“I just can’t help feeling for the children who cannot control being born into poverty”… “I have been angry with myself and can blame no one else, but myself. I am feeling the repercussions of my action still while I continue to try to do the right thing for my daughter.”
Some children are born into riches, but have mothers and father who don’t love them. . .
-Is it not better to be born into poverty and be loved, nurtured, and raised into a strong being? Or to be born into wealth, yet live a life thats been deprived the greatest fortune of all… a loving parent?
17. March 2009 at 9:04 pm :
I say being born into love, nurtured and educated, but I must have given the wrong impression. The poverty I was referring to were the parents who seek more for pleasing themselves, than paying attention to their children. Let me rephrase:
“I just can’t help feeling for the children who cannot control being born into detrimental circumstances.”
“I have been angry with myself and can blame no one else, but myself. I am feeling the repercussions of my action still while I continue to try to do the right thing for my daughter.”
The daughter I was referring to was my little one of whom I’m fighting the courts to get her back in my life.
No matter what our financial status, I will keep track of the well-being of my family, my children. I, unfortunately, put my younger daughter a risk of living a more harsh life and it pains me to know that. At this moment she does not see me as her loving parent because she doesn’t see me at all. My passion for her is what brought me here, doing all I can do and MG being a part of it. The fate of my daughter’s development will be determined next month and I’m thousands of dollars behind still praying for the following 2-3 weeks to be miraculous~
20. March 2009 at 12:52 pm :
You are right JT i was asking my self the same thing, why do the parents do this things. They should be thought first. I don’t know if there is a Program that teach them Birth Control, but that would be the first thing they can learn (i am 28 years old and always thinking if i can raise a child with my salary, believe me i want a child but i “can not afford it”).
20. March 2009 at 8:00 pm :
“Does India have an adoption program for foreigners to adopt the unfortunate children there?”
This question has yet to be answered and I’ve not found anything, so I’m curious to hear if anyone has any feedback towards it?
1. April 2009 at 1:28 pm :
“Does India have an adoption program for foreigners to adopt the unfortunate children there?”
I don’t think so, I believe a foreigner must gain custody of the child in India first, and then apply for a passport before they can bring the child back to the US. I’m not 100% positive about that, but its what i heard.
4. April 2009 at 10:41 pm :
So, go to India, gains rights to the child through India’s adoption process, apply for the child’s passport (sponsoring them), then return. That’s quite a lengthy process, but what can you do~
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27. April 2009 at 9:55 pm :
I would adopt a child from India in a heartbeat!!! However…. it cant be done
It breaks my heart to see these children hungry…