Monday, March 10, 2008

The Truth in Numbers

  • 4 yrs - the average time a child spends in American foster care before being adopted
  • 1.5 million children live in public care in Central and Eastern Europe
  • 12.4 million orphans live in Latin America and the Carribean
  • 43.4 million orphans live in sub-Saharan Africa
  • 87.6 million orphans live in Asia
  • 16 million children were orphaned in 2003
  • Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned as a result of AIDS
  • 800,000 children in the American Foster Care system each year
  • 143 Million orphans in the world


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