One billion children are suffering from one or more forms of deprivation according to the latest UNICEF report.Four hundred million children do not have access to food and clean water. They either have to drink surface water or walk more than 15 minutes to find a protected water source. This means that on average one in five children in developing countries are severely deprived of water. In some areas the figure is much higher. For example, in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda it rises to 80 percent.

One third of the developing world’s children lack sanitation. The total number is 500 million that is, a third of children in developing countries have no access whatever to sanitation. This dramatically increases the risk of disease, especially intestinal worms which sap learning ability.

More than one billion children, half of the world's population of children, suffer from starvation the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) said on Thursday in its annual report. About 640 million children lack adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health care services and 140 million - mostly girls - have never been to school, they found.

More seriously, at last 700 million children suffered from more than one form of "severe deprivation",

Starvation threatens to take the lives of 14.4 million people in southern Africa. Some 1.6 million more people than initially thought are said to be at risk between now and March 2003. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has described the crisis as the most severe and urgent dilemma currently facing the international community. It is a complex crisis with a different situation in each of the six countries affected.

Malawi has experienced the greatest impact, with hundreds of people already dead from starvation. It is estimated that about 3.2 million people are threatened by famine: 560,000 tons of food is needed to avert widespread hunger. An ACT (Action by Churches Together) appeal focuses on the distribution of relief food and on nutrition and health programs.

In a school in Zimbabwe, pupils fall asleep in class from exhaustion. Many now eat only one small meal a day, and the poorest are forced to beg for a handful of corn meal from neighbors. An estimated 6 million of the country’s 12.5 million people are threatened by the hunger crisis. With the current drought, it is estimated that the harvest of maize, Zimbabwe’s major source of food, will drop by more than 50% this year. With other crops similarly affected, a total crop failure is expected in most parts of the country. ACT members are responding with supplementary feeding, food for work, and seed distribution.

In Zambia 2.4 million people face starvation. The country could soon run out of food. Severe drought has caused total crop failure in the southern parts of the country. Lack of government support to the agricultural sectors has contributed to the drastic food shortage. Hundreds of thousands of people are going without food for days or eating wild fruits and tubers. ACT members are responding with food relief, seeds and tools.

The government of Lesotho declared a state of famine in April. The 2002 harvest is said to be 60% below normal, and the UN says some 500,000 people will require emergency food aid. Complicating the hunger crisis is the country’s high incidence of HIV/AIDS, further weakening the immune systems of those already suffering from malnutrition. One ACT member is targeting 9,700 of the most vulnerable people for an 8-month period ending in April 2003. Assistance will include the distribution of maize, beans, oil, and sorghum seed.

Another 515,000 people in Mozambique will require food aid through March 2003. Devastating floods in 2000 and 2001 were followed by severe drought during the 2001/2002 crop season, sharply reducing crop yields. ACT members are distributing food to 29,500 beneficiaries, high-energy biscuits to about 12,000 school children, and seeds to some 35,000 families.

More than 140,000 people in Swaziland are identified as needing immediate food assistance. They have little or no food stocks following the failure of the 2001/2002 harvest. The number is expected to grow to 280,000 by December 2002 when present stocks are exhausted. An appeal for Swaziland is being prepared.

So far this year, SAVE A CHILD NOW has given ,623 to relief efforts in southern Africa.

Every Time this clock hand sweeps, a child dies of hunger. Sit and watch while a few die.

Every single day 50,000  people die, because of the lack of food, water, medication and good government.

That is NINE fellow Human Beings dying for no good reason every time this clock sweeps by. Will it EVER Stop??? 

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