About those who are not so lucky-PORTRAIT OF POVERTY:Earth provides enough to satisfy everybody's need, but not for anybody's greed. - MAHATMA GANDHI

After my posting ("Where is the outrage") on what's going on at the homefront, I thought it might be proper to mention about a serious root cause of turmoil in the world. If the "haves" continue to exploit or ignore the "have nots", it is just a matter of time that the "haves" will be drowned in that turmoil too.

The State of the World's Children 2005: "Childhood Under Threat" UNICEF report shows half the world's children are devastated by poverty, conflict and AIDS

According to The State of the World's Children 2005, "Childhood Under Threat," more than 1 billion children are denied a healthy and protected upbringing.
"Too many governments are making informed, deliberate choices that actually hurt childhood," said UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy in launching the report at the London School of Economics. "Poverty doesn't come from nowhere; war doesn't emerge from nothing; AIDS doesn't spread by choice of its own. These are our choices."

UNICEF concludes that more than half the children in the developing world are severely deprived of one or more of the necessities essential to childhood:
640 million children do not have adequate shelter
500 million children have no access to sanitation
400 million children do not have access to safe water
300 million children lack access to information
270 million children have no access to health care services
140 million children have never been to school
90 million children are severely food-deprived

The State of the World's Children also makes clear that poverty is not exclusive to developing countries. In 11 of 15 industrialized nations, the proportion of children living in low-income households during the last decade has risen.

Those children can not get out of the cycle of poverty, become cynical of the unjust world if they survive, and hate, revenge, terrorism, disease, depression, survival by any means become the norm. The cruel, hypocritic world push them to the limit.