1 billion children in the world today live in extreme poverty, deprived of the material, spiritual and emotional resources to survive.(UNICEF State of the World Report, 2005)
15 million children having been orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. (UNICEF State of the World Report, 2005)
The situation for these children is desperate. It is crucial to get nutritional food and aid to these children for them to survive and thrive.
Members of The Global Angels International Advisory Board have researched, visited and chosen many dynamic projects that are making a very real difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in serious need in many countries including Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Malawi, Kenya, Costa Rica, Cambodia and India.
Orphaned children, as young as nine and ten are the primary caregivers for younger siblings in several continents.
When nutrional food, meeting 70% of a child's daily requirement, is included alongside education, many fathers will reconsider their options to solving family poverty and allow their children to attend school. This is especially true for young girls in extremely poor countries where they may be married as young as 11 or 12, giving the family one less mouth to feed .
Feeding programmes are also the only way many street children will remain alive and healthy.
