CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: BEATING GLOBAL POVERTY ONE CHILD AT A TIME

According to Children International, "Poverty is reality for nearly half the world's population. Almost 3 billion people. And of those, more than 1 billion subsist on less than $1 a day. For them, basic necessities seem impossible - every step is another obstacle to overcome. The statistics tell a grim tale." Suzanne Marcus Fletcher's interview with Dave Treadwell, Regional Gift Planner of one the globe's most successful Humanitarian aid organizations, Children International (CI), discusses the infrastructure and successful model CI has created to make extraordinary in-roads in beating world poverty for those who are, and will remain, the most vulnerable: Children. Facts about poverty: Poverty is the number one killer in the world (British Medical Journal) Six million children under the age of 5 die as a result of hunger and malnutrition every year (UNICEF) More than 1 billion people live without access to safe drinking water (UN) More than 78 percent of the developing world's urban population now lives in slums (UN - Habitat) Statistics only tell part of the story. Behind the numbers are real people. And these are their stories.