Statistics

There are so many statistics that try to quantify global poverty, disease & suffering… but sometimes too many quotes clutter the message as we seem to strive for the stat that is worse than all the others.  So through all the data, we at Our Response have reduced all this data into the following statistics that everyone should be aware of… feeling that nearly all others are merely subsets of these.  These statistics are associated with our framework of 2 truths which sets up our ultimate question: What is Our Response?

 Truth #1: Much of the world lives in a constant state of emergency

• One child under age 5 dies every 3.5 seconds from preventable causes.  According to the World Vision – UNICEF report called the “Child Health Now Report” from October 2009, 9 million children under the age of 5 die each year from preventable causes which include malaria, HIV & AIDS, pneumonia, diarrhea, measles, birth-related complications, hunger, and lack of clean water.

 
Truth #2: Most of us have the capacity to help

• People with an annual income of $25,000 are wealthier than 95% of all people. Further, people with an annual income of $50,000 are wealthier than 99% of people in the world

Please join us at any of the upcoming meetings to hear more about Our Response and the coming together of East Central Minnesota to respond to global poverty, disease, and suffering.  Check out the last blog post for details on the info & pizze meetings which will be the evenings (6:30-8:30) of Monday 4/19 (Pine City), Tuesday 4/20 (Braham), Thursday 4/22 (Princeton) and Friday (North Branch).  All of these are leading to the Spring Info & Update Session on Saturday 4/24 from 9-11am at the Cambridge Intermediate School.