POVERTY = State of being deprived of the essentials of well-being such as adequate housing, food, sufficient income, employment, access to required social services and social status.

• 1.3 billion people live on less than $1 a day; 70% of them are women. 3 billion people live on less than $2 a day, almost half of population of the world.
• More than 850 million (every seventh people) are starvation state. 500 million of them suffer from chronic malnutrition.
• Number of children in the world is 2.2 billion. Number of children living in poverty is 1 billion - every second child.
• More than 12.1million primary-school-age children are out of school; the majority of them are girls.
• Number of adult who cannot read in developing countries is 800 million; two third of them are women.
• Children under 5-year-old die every 3 second, 30,000 a day, 10 million in a year.
• Percentage of people in developing countries who need antiretroviral therapy but do not have access to it is 93%.
• Every third child live without adequate shelter and every fifth person cannot access safe water in developing countries
• 1 billion people cannot drink safe water.