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• 27 million slaves are held in captivity worldwide.
• Human trafficking is estimated to be a thriving industry with annual revenues of 32 billion dollars.
• Child/Human Trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world.
• Child/ human trafficking is the world’s second largest criminal enterprise, after drugs.
• ~2.8m kids run away each year in the US. 1/3 are recruited into the underground world of prostitution & pornography.
• 600,000 – 800,000 people are bought and sold across international borders each year; 50% are children, most are female.
• It’s estimated 14,500 – 17,500 foreign nationals are trafficked into the United States each year.
• Bonded slavery is the continual labor of an individual forced to work by mental or physical threat.
• In 1800 a slave in the Southern U.S. cost the equivalent of $40,000 today. Right now that same slave costs about $90.
• Florida is the second largest hub of human trafficking in the US.
• Every 4 seconds a child < 5yr dies from hunger, dirty drinking water, or lack of vaccinations… 8m avoidable deaths.
• Every year 15 million children die of hunger.
• In Asia, Africa, & Latin American, > 500 million people are living under what we call the “poverty line”.
• 3 billion people struggle to survive on $2 US dollars a day.
• One in eight kids under the age of twelve goes to bed hungry every night.
• Infant mortality is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The US ranked 23rd in infant mortality.
• 1/2 of all children under the age of five in South Asia and 1/3 of those in sub-saharan Africa are malnourished.
• Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger.
• Diseases from unsafe water & lack of basic sanitation kill more people yearly than all forms of violence, including war.
• 90% of the 30,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water and unhygienic living conditions are of children < 5yr.
• The UN predicts that 10% of all global disease can be prevented simply by improving water supply & sanitation.
• The definition of an orphan is “a child who has lost one or both parents to death or other causes”.
• There are 300 million people in the US. There are AT LEAST 143 MILLION orphans in the world.
• Every 15 seconds, another child in AFRICA becomes an AIDS orphan.
• EVERY DAY 44,000 more children in the world become orphans.
• Over 10 million children die every year from poverty, abuse, disease and hunger
• EVERY 2.2 SECONDS another orphan ages out, with no family and no home.