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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
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oday, poverty is no longer a
problem restricted to some
T Tparticular countries. The world
agenda is dominated by children who
make their living on the streets collecting
trash, who spend freezing nights out on the
streets and have dangerous jobs in return
for which they receive little money, risking
their lives. So, much of the world is not safe
from the child deaths stemming from
malnutrition and other poverty-linked
problems.
Statistics on poverty and on street
children alone reveal the serious
dimensions of the situation.
In 1982, UNESCO reported 200,000
street children in Istanbul, 10,000 in
Bogota, and 2 million in Rio de Janeiro. In
Africa, this figure is estimated to be 5
million and is steadily increasing. Civic
dislocations and wars, scarcity, AIDS and
rapid urbanization are factors increasing
the number of street children. Around the
world, 30 to 70 million street children are
homeless on any given night. 5
In America, the young child poverty
rate has grown at an alarming pace.
Between 1979 and 1994, the number of
children under the age of six living in
poverty in the United States grew from 3.5
million to 6.1 million. Nearly half of all