Water
Water is the key to all life: Nearly every single living organism needs water to survive. Yet across the globe, one in three people do not have access to clean water (UNICEF, WHO).
Without water to drink, people can’t live. Without water for their crops and livestock, they can’t eat enough or earn a living. If their water isn’t clean, they won’t be healthy. If their water comes from a faraway source,
Education
For more than 250 million children and young people around the world, education is only a dream. Poverty and conflict keep education out of reach—families need their children to help bring income or work, and so school is not a priority. Yet, it is precisely access to education that is one of the surest routes OUT of poverty, according to the United Nation’s International Institute for Educational Planning.
Orphans and Children
Improving children’s daily lives by safe-guarding them against illness; providing them with educational opportunities; and by giving them access to proper nutrition, water, and sanitation services can also provide a cushion that would help alleviate suffering in emergency situations. Perhaps most important, those basic resources can provide a world of hope to children for a brighter future.
Health
Proper healthcare systems are still unattainable luxuries in some regions of the world. But preventing illness is not the only challenge. Once an individual becomes ill, access to health care varies widely: poor populations tend to have less access to health care.
Poor children live much shorter lives than children from wealthy families, in part due to inadequate health care. A boy who was born in 2012 in a high-income country can expect