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Helping the World's Children |
| Section: LIFE / PROFILE |
| Author: Merlinda Fournier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 4,243 Words, 24,166 Characters |
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The wall--the Vietnam Veterans Memorial--with its simple list of names is our nation's most popular memorial. Yet, in a single day as many children die around the world as there were Americans killed during ten years in Vietnam. No one knows their names. Every three days, more children's lives are lost than the total lost at Hiroshima. Each year, more children die than the total number of soldiers killed in World War II. Thus the figures on annual child mortality compare disturbingly with death tolls from this century's worst catastrophes. The most troubling realization about the roughly fifteen million children who die each year is that the vast majority of these deaths could have been prevented.
The slayers are famine, diarrhea, and preventable diseases. Children are dying in drov...
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...nvolved. Be a part of the change.
"Gandhi once said something to the effect that 'we must be the change that we want to see in the world.' I want the consciousness of America to be the change that we want to see in the world." If this happens, Broom believes, America will once again be a shining beacon of hope to the world. And if that happens, she will enjoy retirement all the more. vbcrlf
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