“Any kind of progress we achieve won´t last if we keep ignoring children who are in need, the most poor and vulnerable ones, the exploited and abused”.
Ann Veneman. Executive Director of UNICEF
In most poor Latin American children “anaemia for lack of iron, connected with a poor diet, intestinal parasites and frequent infections, constitutes the most common nutritional problem in this region”.
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17 million girls and boys under 15 are forced to work.Many of them are subjected to the worst forms of hard labor, including prostitution and slavery.
60% of children between 0 and 12 years of age are poor, and 50% of teenagers between 13 and 19 live in the same poverty conditions.
Almost 370,000 girls and boys
die per year before the 5 years of age, in most cases due to diseases which could have been prevented.
Sources: Unicef and ILO
8.8 million children suffer from chronic malnutrition; this is the result of starvation and extreme poverty which causes a growth delay in children. In Latin America and The Caribbean, 20% of children under 5 suffer from this problem.
