Orphans, Street Children, Child Trafficking & Child Soldiers

Around the world, children suffer cruelly in many ways, a result of the quality of selfishness because adults who are in a position to help, don't.

Here are some worldwide statistics on orphans, street children, child trafficking and child soldiers:

1. Orphans: According to UNICEF, there are 132 million orphans worldwide (defined as children who have lost one or both parents). Of these, 13 million have lost both parents. [1]
2. Street Children: According to UNESCO, there are up to 150 million street children in the world today. [2]
3. Child Trafficking. According to UNICEF, 1.2 million children are trafficked each year. [3]
4. Child Soldiers: There are an estimated 250,000 child soldiers in the world today. [4]

We're all one family and we have to start treating each other as one family. We have to change from personal selfishness to mutual bestowal and seek to benefit others (especially children) instead of ourselves.

Round tables need to be established to seek to benefit children in every way: To ensure that all children are raised in loving homes instead of in institutions and orphanages, to ensure that children aren't living on the streets, to stop child trafficking, to stop children from being used as soldiers, and to find new ways of improving the environments in which children grow up in so they're surrounded by love and support in every way.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.

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References:

1. Orphans. www.unicef.org. Retrieved Oct 24, 2014.
2. Street Children. www.unesco.org. Retrieved Oct 24, 2014.
3. Child trafficking. www.unicef.org. Retrieved Oct 24, 2014.
4. Child Soldiers. www.warchild.org.uk. Retrieved Oct 24, 2014.

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