Filmmaker Diego Quemada-Diez' short film most powerfully narrates a poem with the same title in Kibera, one of Africa's largest slums near Nairobi, Kenya.Website | Watch the film
1. The poorest countries have 95% of the AIDS cases worldwide.
2. Every single day 30,000 children die as a result of poverty.
3. One in six children die before age 5
4. 86% of children living with HIV/AIDS are in Sub-saharan Africa
5. By 2010 if all continues at this growth rate, 50 million orphans are estimated.
6. 60% of Nairobi’s population lives in the slums.
7. 70% of them cannot meet their daily basic food needs.
8. 80% of slum households does not have access to piped water.
9. In the slums of Kibera 400 people share one toilet.
10. The three richest people in the world control more wealth than all 600 million people in the world is poorest countries.
11. The average life expectancy in Africa is 41 years.
12. Africa is the only major developing country region with negative per capita growth during 1980-2000.
13. More than 40 percent of Africans suffer from malnutriton.
14. In 1960, Africa was a net exporter of food; today the continent imports one-third of its grain.
15. Since 1965 the number of people living in absolute poverty has doubled from 138 million to 307 million
16. The annual dairy subsidy in the EU amounts $913 per cow per year.
17. EU’s aid to Africa is $8 per african per year.
18. The top 1% of the world’s richest people earn as much as the world poorest 57%.
19. In the hardest-hit countries of Southern Africa, one in three adults is HIV positive.
20. African countries spend more money servicing their debt than on healthcare.
21. 78% of HIV world deaths happen in subsaharian Africa
22. World trade has increased tenfold since 1970, and more food is produced than ever before, yet the number of people going hungry in Africa has doubled. More than 800 million people go hungry every day.
23. More than 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water.
24. Worldwide, a woman dies every minute from complications associated with having a baby; 99% of these deaths are in the developing world.
25. In the developing world, a child dies every fifteen seconds from water-related diseases.
o Over 3 million people died from AIDS in 2004. 2.3 million of those were in sub-Saharan Africa. That amounts to 8,493 people dying from AIDS every day and six people dying every minute. Aid to the 28 countries with the highest HIV adult prevalence rate declined by one-third between 1995 and 2000.
26. 70 % of Kenya’s business income and revenues goes to foreign companies and investors
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1. The poorest countries have 95% of the AIDS cases worldwide.
2. Every single day 30,000 children die as a result of poverty.
3. One in six children die before age 5
4. 86% of children living with HIV/AIDS are in Sub-saharan Africa
5. By 2010 if all continues at this growth rate, 50 million orphans are estimated.
6. 60% of Nairobi’s population lives in the slums.
7. 70% of them cannot meet their daily basic food needs.
8. 80% of slum households does not have access to piped water.
9. In the slums of Kibera 400 people share one toilet.
10. The three richest people in the world control more wealth than all 600 million people in the world is poorest countries.
11. The average life expectancy in Africa is 41 years.
12. Africa is the only major developing country region with negative per capita growth during 1980-2000.
13. More than 40 percent of Africans suffer from malnutriton.
14. In 1960, Africa was a net exporter of food; today the continent imports one-third of its grain.
15. Since 1965 the number of people living in absolute poverty has doubled from 138 million to 307 million
16. The annual dairy subsidy in the EU amounts $913 per cow per year.
17. EU’s aid to Africa is $8 per african per year.
18. The top 1% of the world’s richest people earn as much as the world poorest 57%.
19. In the hardest-hit countries of Southern Africa, one in three adults is HIV positive.
20. African countries spend more money servicing their debt than on healthcare.
21. 78% of HIV world deaths happen in subsaharian Africa
22. World trade has increased tenfold since 1970, and more food is produced than ever before, yet the number of people going hungry in Africa has doubled. More than 800 million people go hungry every day.
23. More than 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water.
24. Worldwide, a woman dies every minute from complications associated with having a baby; 99% of these deaths are in the developing world.
25. In the developing world, a child dies every fifteen seconds from water-related diseases.
o Over 3 million people died from AIDS in 2004. 2.3 million of those were in sub-Saharan Africa. That amounts to 8,493 people dying from AIDS every day and six people dying every minute. Aid to the 28 countries with the highest HIV adult prevalence rate declined by one-third between 1995 and 2000.
26. 70 % of Kenya’s business income and revenues goes to foreign companies and investors
how odd that this was posted on the same day that i got to fly an airplane for the first time. weird.
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