Children and Poverty

People who are most affected by poverty are the children. I have read this in the site www.care.org, some facts or truth about children and poverty.

Education

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• 134 million children between the ages of 7 to 18 have never been to school

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• Girls are more likely to go without schooling than boys — in the Middle East and North Africa, girls are three times more likely than boys to be denied education

• For every year of education, wages increase by a worldwide average of 10 percent

• Educated mothers tend to send their children to school, helping to break the cycle of poverty

Exploitation

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• In the last decade, more than 2 million children have died as a direct result of armed conflict

More than 300,000 child soldiers are exploited in armed conflicts in over 30 countries around the world

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• 2 million children are believed to be exploited through the commercial sex trade

Approximately 246 million children work

171 million children work in hazardous conditions

Source: http://www.care.org