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October 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - Stand Up and Speak Out!
October 17: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - Stand Up and Speak Out!
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Did You Know......
  • Over 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day with nearly half the world’s population (2.8 billion) living on less than $2 a day.
  • Between 1990–92 and 2001–03, the number of hungry people in Brazil decreased from 18.5 million to 14.4 million and the prevalence from 12 to 8 percent of the population.
  • In 1988 there were some 350 000 polio cases worldwide; by January 2005 there were only 1185 cases reported.
  • UNESCO say in the 2007 Global Monitoring Report, that Universal primary education would cost $11 billion a year … that's half what Americans spend on ice cream.
  • Globally, as of 2005, an estimated 15.2 million children under 18 have lost one or both parents to AIDS; about 80 per cent of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • International trade is worth $10 million a minute. 70% of this is controlled by multinational corporations.

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