Get the Facts!
- One billion children live in poverty
- The average cow in the European Union receives more than £1.40 a day in subsidies, more than the amount that half the world’s population survives on
- The UK spends about £199 million on eye makeup each year. The same amount could provide 6 million children with vitamin A to prevent blindness
- It would take only 4% of the wealth of the worlds 225 richest people to provide the food, education and healthcare needed to end poverty
- Europeans spend about £7.3 million on ice cream each year– roughly what it would cost to provide safe water for every child on earth
- The UK spends about £30 billion on golf each year– enough to provide basic healthcare, education and clean water to every human being on the planet
- Spread over ten years the cost to the UK taxpayer of canceling a £1.3bn debt is £171m a year or £2.85 per UK citizen—the price of a pint of beer
- 300,000 children under 18 serve in government forces or armed rebel groups; some as young as 8 years old
- The developing world carries 90% of the disease burden yet benefits from only 10% of the world’s healthy resources
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