Crisis

These days everyone is talking about “the crisis”. Or may be better THE CRISIS. Or T H E C R I S I S.

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Now, what strikes me is how many different things “crisis” could mean to different people. Consider the following:

# In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
# Every year 15 million children die of hunger
# The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
# 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
# In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.
# Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
# About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age
# To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
# The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.
# Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
# It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

Do you still think you are being impacted by the CRISIS? Take time TO BE THANKFUL! Wait, here’s a better one: why not be thankful ALL THE TIME!