Children’s Report
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Every year about this time UNICEF publishes its State of the World’s Children Report, a publication that outlines our achievements and our work yet-to-be done to eliminate child poverty, hunger and deaths.
Currently, 35,000 children die needlessly every single day, primarily from hunger and hunger-related disease. One-fifth of the world’s population lives in absolute poverty and billions of children are born into a life of suffering. The UNICEF report shines a bright ray of hope and possibility for their future, outlining feasible solutions to ending this misery. Unfortunately, the report goes largely unnoticed.
The Clinton Administration has begun to rewrite the U.S. foreign assistance program for the first time since the early 1960s. Poverty-ending solutions included in the 1994 children’s report should be strongly considered in this rewrite.
DIXINE HARDESTY, Irvine
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