THE TRUTH OF MODERN WORLD WITH CHILDREN

Approximately half of the 2,000 million children living in the real world have a life raw and brutally different from what we all aspire. Poverty denies children their dignity, endangering their lives and limits their potential. Conflicts and violence prevents them from benefiting from a secure family life and betray their trust and hope.

Some children are abducted, some forced to join an armed group, or made to work hard away from their family, do not live their childhood. Life for those with the greatest misery, do not have adequate food, no access to education, clean water, sanitation facilities or a place to live. A World Fit for Children, contrasts blatantly with the actual childhood of most children of the world. About 29,000 children under 5 die every day due to causes that are preventable.

The life of approximately 1,000 million children are blighted by poverty, despite the wealth of their nations. In the developing world, more than one in three children do not have adequate housing, one in five children have no access to clean water, and one in seven has no access to essential health services. More than 16 percent of children under five years do not receive adequate food, and 13 percent of all children has never attended school.

Hundreds of thousands of children trapped in armed conflict as soldiers, many were forced to fight on the front lines. Since 1990, conflicts have cost the lives of 3.6 million people, more than 45 percent of those killed were children.