• Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in children and adolescents in the United States. (Source: National Cancer Institute)
• One out of every 300 males and one out of every 333 females in America will develop cancer before their 20th birthday. (Source: American Society of Clinical Oncology
• Approximately 20 percent of all children with cancer will die from their disease, a secondary cancer, or complications from treatment. (National Cancer Institute)
• Every day 5,760 more children become orphans.
• Each year 14,505,000 children grow up as orphans and age out of the system by age 16.
• Every 2.2 seconds another orphan ages out with no family to belong to and no place to call home.
• The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly 870 million people of the 7.1 billion people in the world, or one in eight, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2010-2012. Almost all the hungry people, 852 million, live in developing countries, representing 15 percent of the population of developing counties. There are 16 million people undernourished in developed countries (FAO 2012).
• 246 million children, one in every six children aged 5-17, are involved in child labor. (International Labor Organization, 2002)
• It is estimated that there are 27 million people in the world today who are enslaved. Ever year 600,000 to 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders (US Dept. of State Trafficking in Person Report, 2006).