More than one billion people in the world live on less than
one dollar a day. Another 2.7 billion struggle to survive on less than two
dollars per day. Poverty in the developing world, however, goes far beyond income
poverty. It means having to walk more than one mile everyday simply to collect
water and fire-wood; it means suffering diseases that were eradicated from rich
countries decades ago. Every year eleven million children die —most under the
age of five and more than six million from completely preventable causes like
malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.
In some deeply impoverished nations less than half of the
children are in primary school and under 20 percent go to secondary school.
Around the world, a total of 114 million children do not get even a basic
education and 584 million women are illiterate. Following is a little video that shows few faces of poverty.
Source: UN millennium project