Sobre a pobreza no mundo

More than a billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. • More than two and a half billion people do not have a sanitary way of getting rid of excreta (urine and faeces).• Up to a third of disease globally is thought to be caused by environmental factors such as polluted water and air.
Children are particularly vulnerable to disease. This is because children's bodies are not fully developed, so they have less resistance to illness. Also, in proportion to their weight, young children breathe more air, drink more water and eat more food than adults do, so they take in bigger doses of any contaminants.