Poor

Bob Wille (Family)

Passed on, November 6, 2022
He who has mercy on the poor,
happy is he”
Proverbs 14:21

[Note: These statistics are at least 15 years old.]

Worldwide statistics…
6.5 billion people live on earth
1.2 billion people live on 23 cents a day
2.0 billion people have no electricity
80% of all people live in substandard housing
1.0 billion people are without safe drinking water
Every 16 seconds someone dies of hunger
57 million people died in 2006

10.5 million of these were children less than 5 years old
14 million children were orphaned because of HIV/AIDS
2 million children have died as a direct result of armed conflict during the last 10 years

Meanwhile…
$8 billion was spent on cosmetics in America in 2005
$11 billion for ice cream in Europe
$17 billion in the USA and Europe on pet food
$105 billion for alcohol in Europe

[Gary Wilkerson]
 
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