Food for Thought
Every morning more than 38 million children in the U.S. wake up to attend primary school, while 41 million children in sub-Saharan Africa have no school to attend.
In sub-Saharan Africa...
• 41,000,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa have no school to attend
• 40% of children in sub-Saharan Africa do not attend primary school
• Nearly 90% of all children in the world infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa
• Almost 11.4 million children are orphans due to AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
In Uganda...
• Over 50% of Uganda's population is under the age of 15 making it the youngest country in the world.
• 110,000 Ugandan children currently HIV+ and/or living with AIDS
• A girl's likelihood of contracting HIV/AIDS is cut by 50% by simply completing primary school
• Ony 57% of Ugandan children will complete primary school.
• Over 1,000,000 children in Uganda, between the ages of 6-12, are not in school
• 35% of adult Ugandans are illiterate
• 9 million people are living on less than $1 per day
Sources: UNICEF, USAID, UNAIDS, UNESCO, UN Statistics Division, and UNDP.
