•  One BILLION people live in extreme poverty earning less than $1 a day and 150 million children are malnourished

•  115 MILLION school-age children are not in school

•  60% of people working in family enterprises are women. The work is usually unpaid, considered of little value and not reflected in national statistics.

•  30,000 children die every day before reaching their fifth birthday. Every year 11 MILLION die.

•  1 in 6 women dies to give life compared with 1 in 3,800 in the developed world

•  2.9 MILLION Died in 2006 380,000 under 15.

•  1.1 BILLION People still live without safe water supplies. 72% of Africa 's urban population lives in slum conditions.