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In collaboration with studies made by the London School of Economics, Unicef showed that more than 50% of the children are deprived of goods and services essential to their well being: |
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Sister Marie Camille, snd, at the Soup Kitchen of Fraternite Notre Dame in Paris, France.
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- 640 millions have no adequate housing.
- 500 millions have no access to sanitary installations. - 400 millions have no access to drinkable water. - 300 millions have no access to information. - 270 millions have no access to healthcare. - 140 millions, mainly girls, have never attended school. - 90 millions -about 1 child out of 6- suffer from hunger. |
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| Recurrent poverty in underdeveloped countries is due to a lack of economic development, bad weather conditions leading to famine and thus, malnourishment, pandemic such as AIDS in sub-Saharian Africa, to natural catastrophes as the Tsunami in East Asia. But poverty is also increasing in developed countries where unemployment leads to economic problems, thus emerged a new social category called the Fourth World. Alarming and worrying situation. |
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| This is the case in the 15 most industrialized countries in the world: the number of children living under poverty level has increased in 11 of them; let us mention France among them. We can notice a growth as well in the number of children going to soup kitchens, or whose families benefit from nutritious help. This increasing poverty leads children to leave their family and it fosters begging, an increase in street children and prostitution among boys and girls. This is how underage girls from Eastern Europe come to Western European countries to work as prostitutes, are sexually abused, and become easy preys for the HIV and AIDS virus. |
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