1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world).

640 million children live without adequate shelter.

400 million children have no access to safe water and 270 million children have no access to health services.

10.6 million children died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).

The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. In spite of the scale of this daily and ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, primetime, headline news coverage.

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