~EXTREME POVERTY STATS~ * More than 1 billion people around the world live on less than a $1 a day.
* A child dies every three seconds from AIDS and extreme poverty, often before their fifth birthday.
* More than one billion people do not have access to clean water.
* Every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday.
* More than 50 percent of Africans suffer from water-related diseases such as cholera and infant diarrhea.
* More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day, 300 million are children.
* Of these 300 million children, only eight percent are victims of famine or other emergency situations. More than 90 percent are suffering long-term malnourishment and micronutrient deficiency.
* Four out of every ten people in the world don't have access even to a simple latrine.
* Declining soil fertility, land degradation, and the AIDS pandemic have led to a 23 percent decrease in food production per capita in the last 25 years even though population has increased dramatically.
* For the African farmer, conventional fertilizers cost two to six times more than the world market price.
* A woman living in sub-Saharan Africa has a 1 in 16 chance of dying in pregnancy. This compares with a 1 in 3,700 risk for a woman from North America

We need to remember that we are among the most blessed people in the whole world.