Education, poverty and the exploitation of children’s

In the 21st Century, humanity finally has the technology, wealth, knowledge and resources to actually end global poverty. Yet almost 1.7 billion people are estimated to live in absolute poverty and unable to afford basic human needs such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education. We can, collectively and individually, participate to this cycle of poverty and at UDiON Foundation we are urging each and every one of you to take action.

Many developed countries, uphold human rights through child protection laws, compulsory education, anti-discrimination legislation and regular elections. But the rights had to be fought for over long periods. Change did happen. Change can happen now for the world’s poorest people.

Today there are more than 143 million orphans in the world. Recent statistic shows 42,000 children become orphans every day and every two seconds the number is increasing by one. On the other hand, every 90 seconds another orphan dies, almost 400,000 orphans die every year due to malnutrition. 60 million orphans go to bed hungry. These children cry themselves to sleep every night and suffer severe pain in their empty stomach. They are lonely, scared, and hungry. Of the 57 million people worldwide who died last year, 10.5 million of them were children less than five years old. Nearly 1 billion people live on less than $1.00 per day, treatable illnesses, such as pneumonia, malaria, diarrhea and malnutrition, become life-threatening when combined with poverty, war, poor-sanitation, inadequate health care and insufficient preventive measures, yet the world has never been so prosperous. The world has enough money, resources and technology to end the cycle of poverty.

The orphans who survived from childhood poverty still face many obstacles to secure their future. Children in under-developing nations have limited access to education, which limits opportunity and reduces potential. Economic, social and cultural factors keep some 121 million children, especially girls, from attending school. Faced with difficult choices, parents often take girls out of school to care for younger siblings, help with household chores or work outside the home to contribute to family expense. In the world’s least developed countries, only 14 percent of secondary school enrollment is female.