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This is a 60 day archive of facts about the world we live in and how fortunate most of us are.
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That’s better isn’t it?
This archive is a collection of 60 things in which I found that makes my life incredibly blessed or different from someone else who, simply by chance, was not granted the same opportunities due to race, gender, or financial status. Whether it was simply access to a resource I often take for granted or the freedom to express myself how I choose and make decisions for myself, the information I found opened my eyes. I am now sharing this information with the hopes that it too will make you realize all the wonderful things that occur in your life and no matter how terrible you may think things are going, take time to realize just one thing that you have that you take for granted.
Put on those glasses now!
An American takinga five minute shower uses more water than a typical person in a developing country slum uses in a day.
An estimated 1.6 billion people have no access to electricityat all, while another 1 billion people have no electricity for most of the day.
An estimated 22 % ofthe global workforce,or 614.2 million workers, are working more than 48 hours per week.
At least 2.6 billion people around the planet have no access to a toilet. It means they have nothing — not a public toilet, not an outhouse, not even a bucket.
Most African children who attend school have never owned a book of their own. In many classrooms, 10-20 students share one textbook.
In Mauritania, where big is beautiful and stretch marks are sexy, young girls are brutally force-fed a diet of up to 16,000 calories a day.
Up until 1990, there was still legalization of segregation in South Africa and people still suffer from it today.
March 23, 2011, Syrian police launched a relentless assault on a neighborhood sheltering anti-government protesters.
The estimate for fully orphaned children (having no parental care at all) is placed at 18.52 million worldwide.
At least one out of every three women worldwidehas been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
Students in poorer African villages some-times must travel up to 18 miles to the nearest school, most often by walking.
There are 57 million people living world-wide with Traumatic Brain Injury-related disability, which would equal the total population of Italy.
Globally, 2.4 billion people, most of them in developing countries, do nothave access toimproved sanitation.
In certain cultures such as parts of Asia and India, girls are most often aborted in favor for boys.
North Korea has no independent journalists and all radio and television receivers sold in the country are locked to government - specified frequencies.
The Somalian Islamists’ beat women for wearing Somali traditional dress instead of the long, shapeless black robes favoured by the fighters.
After fighting for the rights
of all their countrymen,
women in Egypt rallied for
their own gender equality on
International Women’s day
only to be confronted with
hoards of men shouting in
opposition.
In countries like Bangladesh,Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Nigermore than 60% of women enter marriageor a union before theage of eighteen.
1 in 250 children is born with a significant facial disfigurement or genetics that will later lead to a significant disfigurement.