- Over a million children - that's over 13,000 school buses full - are abused each year in America.
- 1 in every 330 Americans develops cancer before age 20.
- 1 in 8 children between ages six and fourteen have some kind of disability.
- A startling one out of every five children in the U.S. lives in poverty.
- Students who spend 1 to 4 hours per week in extracurricular activities are 49% less likely to use
drugs and 37% less likely to become teen parents.
- 20 million children worldwide die each year from hunger.
- 1 in 5 high school students considers suicide - 1 in 10 attempt it.
- The incidence of childhood obesity, heart disease, and diabetes is on the rise, but the amount of
time given for physical education classes in on the decline.
- A quarter of all women in the US will be abused at some point in their lives.
- Depression affects twice as many women as men.
- Women are 70% of the world's poor, and two-thirds of those are not taught to read and write.
- Every year in the U.S. over 20,000,000 cats and dogs end up in a shelter. Of these, over
15,000,000 are euthanized.
- Approximately 10 billion animals are killed each year in the U.S. for food.
- Every minute, $19,000 worth of endangered animals or animal parts is sold on the world's black
market.
- 120 million worldwide are hearing disabled; 160 million are visually disabled.
- 1 in 5 children are learning disabled.
- 1.8 million Americans over the age of 6 use a wheelchair.
- 1.2 million athletes worldwide participate in the Special Olympics.
