The way we cater for children, protect their wellbeing, and prepare them for the future are the predominant issues we face during our lifetime. All children are our future and they all need our love. At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. More than 80 percent of the world's population lives in countries where income differentials are broadening.



According to UNICEF, 26,500-30,000 children die each day as a result of impoverishment. And they "die quietly in some of the remotest villages on earth, far removed from the surveillance and the virtue of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying myriads even more inconspicuous in death.

Approximately 27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are ajudged to be underweight or stunted. The two regions that account for the majority of the inadequacy are South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Less than one per cent of what the world spent anually on weapons was necessary to enroll every child in school by the year 2000 and yet it did not materialize.

If present trends progresses, the Millennium Development Goals target of cutting in half the proportion of underweight children will be missed by 30 million children, mainly because of slow headway in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

Based on enrolment data, about 72 million children of primary school age in the developing world were not in school in 2005; 57 per cent of them were girls. And these are regarded as optimistic numbers. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.

Infectious diseases continue to blight the lives of the poor across the world. An estimated 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, with 3 million deaths in 2004. Every year there are 350-500 million cases of malaria, with 1 million fatalities: Africa accounts for 90 percent of malarial deaths and African children account for over 80 percent of malaria victims worldwide.

Behind these facts are precious individual children and their families who shouldn't have to suffer. We each have a moral responsibility to ensure the vitality of all children because if we're not part of the solution then we're part of the problem! Lets do what we can in eradicating poverty and starvation in the world.