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With the pervasive conflicts and wars in this complex world,
the highest number of displaced and refugees ever, mass migration, natural
disasters, climate crises, HIV/AIDS, Ebola +…… who is looking after the orphan
girls, trying to reunite families, “picking up the pieces” so orphan girls are
not abused and victimized, so that they have care and hopes for the future??
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dhOIc_xaSk
- By Gillian Welch
ORPHAN GIRL SONG & VIDEO WITH PHOTOS
SOS
Children’s Villages - http://www.sos-usa.org/our-impact/childrens-statistics
Orphan
Children’s Statistics - Gender
Worldwide, SOS Children’s
Villages operates over 500 Villages in 133 countries where we raise over 80,000
children. Through our many education, family strengthening, medical, and
community outreach programs, SOS impacts the lives of over 1 million people
every year.
- It
is estimated that 153 million children worldwide, ranging from infants to
teenagers, have lost one or both parents (UNICEF).
- HIV/AIDS
has orphaned 17.9 million children, most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa and
Southeast Asia (UNICEF).
- Over
7 million children are in institutional care worldwide (Save).
- One
in five children living in developing countries is severely underweight
(World Bank, UN).
- Over
1 billion children suffer from at least one form of severe deprivation of
basic needs such as water, food, and sanitation (SOS).
- 19,000
children under the age of five died every day in 2011 (UNICEF).
- 22
million children are refugees or internally displaced, forced to flee
their homes due to violence or natural disaster (UNHCR).
- Over
1 billion children live in countries affected by armed conflict (UNICEF).
- 67
million children of primary school age do not go to school (UNESCO).
- Children
suffer from domestic violence everywhere. On every continent, households
report domestic violence against children at rates ranging from 20 to
60% (UN DESA; UNICEF).
Africa:
- Sub-Saharan
Africa has the highest risk of first-day-death for infants, and is the
region showing the least progress towards ending infant mortality
(UNICEF).
·
In Sub-Saharan Africa 1 out of 9 children dies before the age of
five (UNICEF).
- Malaria
is a leading killer of children under five in Africa, leading to over
600,000 deaths in 2010 (UNICEF).
- In
Egypt, 9 out of 10 children at our SOS Villages were born out of
wedlock and abandoned (SOS).
- In
Zimbabwe, 66% of children in SOS Families have lost both parents (SOS).
- The
highest youth unemployment rates are in the Middle East and Africa, where
one in four young people cannot find work (ILO).
Asia:
- Asia
is home to the larged number of orphaned children in the world; 60
million, at last count (UNICEF).
- 30
million children in East Asia suffer from at least one severe deprivation
(UNICEF).
- In
the Russian Federation alone, 140,000 children with disabilities live in
institutional care (UNICEF).
- Under-five
deaths are increasingly concentrated in Southern Asia – India and China
are two of the countries with the highest rates of early childhood
mortality (UNICEF).
- Almost
30% of neonatal deaths occur in India (UNICEF).
Latin America:
- 7.5
million girls are married before age 18 in Latin America and the Caribbean
(UNICEF).
- There
are 10.2 million orphaned children in Latin America, 5% of all children in
the region (UNICEF).
- Women
and children are especially vulnerable in Latin America; underage minors
represent 50% of people living in extreme poverty (World Bank).
USA:
- There
are over 120,000 orphans in America, while another 400,000 children live
without permanent families (HHS; AFCARS).
- It
is common for children in foster care to age out, leaving them with little
financial or emotional support. 27,000 children age out of the system
every year (AFCARS).
- Almost
25% of youth aging out did not have a high school diploma or GED
(University of Chicago).