Because my signature statement for L'AMORE is "everything I do is from a place deep inside my heart", I want to make a point to blog on things that matter from the heart. Deep thoughts. Interesting facts. Inspirational reflections...etc.
An email spurred me to google and find out more about this. I found Family Care Foundation (FCF) and a different version of --
"If the World Were a Village of 100 People"
If we could reduce the world's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:
The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 9 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific
51 would be male, 49 would be female
82 would be non-white, 18 white
67 would be non-Christian, 33 would be Christian
80 would live in substandard housing
67 would be unable to read
50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
33 would be without access to a safe water supply
39 would lack access to improve sanitation
24 would not have any electricity (and of the 76 that do have electricity, most would only use it for light at night)
7 people would have access to the internet
1 would have a college education
1 would have HIV
2 would be near birth, 1 near death
5 would control 32% of the entire world's wealth, all 5 would be US citizens
33 would be receiving and attempting to live on only 3% of the income of "the village"
Go to FCF and check out the charitable org.
Dream Sweet
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