According to Poverty.com ::

"AIDS kills over 2 million people a year, or about one person every 15 seconds.

About 250,000 people die every day due to hunger-related causes...that's one person every three-and-a-half seconds

Pneumonia, as well as other forms of acute respitory infection take more than 2 million children each year.

Close to 90% of all malaria [which is spread by mosquitos] cases are in Africa. Over a million people die each year from it, others seriously weakened."

That's not all the statistics, but I'm not going to list them all. If you want to read more, you can go to the site.

There is a way to stop what's going on. Everything listed is preventable. At an estimated 195 billion dollars a year.

However, 22 [developed] countries have pledged to work towards giving 0.7% [little less than 1%] of national income.

Countries that are working towards the goal; Ireland, Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom, Finland, Austria, France, Germany, Portugal, Greece, and Italy.

Five of the twenty-two have already reached their goal [Sweden, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands].

Only six countries on the list have yet to set up a schedule to give 0.7% [Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States].

"These six countries are all democracies. All that is necessary for them to reach the 0.7% goal is for enough of their citizens to show their support."

The site provides a letter [addressed to the government for whatever country you're in (of the 22 countries on the list)] that you can print out and send to the government officials [i.e., the president].

Crazy, isn't it?

"Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity.
But silence is impossible.
Silence screams.
Silence is a message,
Just as doing nothing is an act.
Let who you are ring out and resonate
In every word and every deed.
Yes, become who you are.
There's no sidestepping your own being
Or your own responsibility.
What you do is who you are.
You are your own comeuppance.
You become your own message.
You are the message."
- Leonard Peltier