Assistance Quote by Benjamin Mkapa

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“The equivalent of five jumbo jets’ worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. The remedy? America…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as…

— Peter Singer

“According to UNICEF, if ninety school buses filled with preschoolers crashed every day with no survivors, the world would notice. Yet that’s how many…

— Robert Morgan

People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at…

— Bill Gates

When you turn on the news, they don't say, "Hey, 2 Million kids went to school safely today...40,000 flights took place without incident." They…

— Richard Patrick

If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?

— Judith Hayes

Even if one child falls in a borewell, the entire country gets worried; we must generate more awareness about hundreds of children who are…

— Narendra Modi

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

— Edward Zigler

Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of…

— Irwin Redlener

If kids've been overprotected from failure in childhood, they get out into the world and they really get thrown off.

— Paul Tough

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

— Eric Alterman