Youth Against Poverty is a organization focused on spreading awareness of child poverty. We hope that the younger generation will understand the need of eradicating child poverty globally and do their part in the fight to end it.
Many teens have preconceived thoughts of people in poverty and how charities use their money for them - "They are all drug addicts", "They had a choice", "The money doesn't go to them, "Who cares, it's not me". Our goal is to change those thoughts and ideas by educating them about what is really happening. They will understand exactly how children in poverty are living and what they - as young people can do about it.
"Lend your voice to make a difference" is the motto of our organization. We believe young people who are motivated will use their energies and resources to spread the word around. Each of our voices can be a powerful and useful weapon against child poverty. They will be able to challenge their peer group and others by speaking to them about child poverty and help them to join in the fight against it. Young people can also get involved with different activities to help in the fight.
FACTS ABOUT CHILD POVERTY
Globally
- About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five. (United Nations)
- Every year nearly 11million children die before their fifth birthday. (Millennium Campaign)
- Every 30 seconds an African child dies of malaria-more than one million child deaths a year. (UN Millennium Project)
- Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable diseases - that's over 30,000 per day and one every 3 seconds. (Millennium Campaign)
- 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. (UN Millennium Project)
- Every 3.6 seconds another person dies of starvation and the large majority are children under the age of 5. (UN Millennium Project)
- Five million people, mostly children, die each year from water-borne diseases. (UN Millennium Project)
- 600 million children live in absolute poverty. (Millennium Campaign)
- 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. That is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children under five years of age, each year. (Unicef)
- Number of children in the world: 2.2 billion. Number in poverty: 1 billion (every second child) (Global Issues)
Unites States
- About 15 million children -- one out of every four -- live below the official poverty line. (Hearts & Minds)
- Poverty affects all ages, but an astonishing 48% percent of its victims are children. (Hearts & Minds)
- 22% of Americans under the age of 18 -- and 25% under age 12 -- are hungry or at the risk of being hungry. (Hearts & Minds)
- Everyday 2,660 children are born into poverty in the United States; 27 die because of it. (Hearts & Minds)
- Children and families are the fastest growing group in the homeless population, representing 40%. (Hearts & Minds)
- There are more than 73 million children in the United States. 40%29.2 millionlive in low-income families. 18%13.5 millionlive in poor families. (National Center for Children in Poverty)
- A U.S. child is more than five times as likely to be poor as a child in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Swedan. (Poor Kids in a Rich Country)
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