www.MCEnterprises.org Our Global Village If there were only 100 people in the entire world…
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Dec 29, 2015
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Our Global Village
If there were only 100 peoplein the entire world…
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Our village has neighborhoods
One neighborhood has 61 AsiansAnother has 13 Africans12 Europeans are in towns8 Hispanics live in a barrio5 Americans in the suburbs
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We speak many languages
22 villagers speak Chinese9 speak English9 converse in Hindi7 talk in Spanish4 each speak Bengali & Arabic3 chat in Russian or Portuguese2 each speak in Japanese,
French & German
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Our village worships many Gods
32 villagers are Christians20 are Muslims 15 are atheists or not religious13 are Hindu11 practice a folk religion 6 are Buddhists1 is a Jew
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Our village is divided equally between women and men
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Men in our village live 61 years; Women live 3 years longer
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30 of us are children under the age of 15
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25 villagers are women of childbearing age
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63 of us have jobs; 37 do not
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1 villager has a college education 17 of us cannot read or write
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33 people in our village live in poverty housing
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18 villagers do not have safe, clean water in their homes
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40 villagers do not have a sanitary toilet
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10 rich people earn 54% of the village’s total income
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20 of our mothers, daughters and sisters have been raped
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Our village spends 10 times more on weapons than on well-being
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20 villagers survive on $1.00/day 51 get by on $2.00/day
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70 of us are hungry every day Some of us are not
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One Year in Our Village
3,000 people died at the World Trade Center in New York (2001)
300,000 people died from a tsunami in the Indian Ocean (2004)
11 million children died from starvation (every year)
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If you keep your food in a refrigerator
And your clothes in a closet,
If you have a roof over your head
And a bed to sleep in,
You are richer than 75% of the world’s
population.
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Acknowledgements
Data Sources at MicroCredit Enterprises.
Photo credits: Freedom from Hunger, Jacob Holdt Gallery, KrystaalTal Gallery, Pan American Health Organization, Peter Langer Media Group, United Nations, Webshots Gallery, World Bank.
Special Thanks to the book If The World Were A Village for the concept.
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