Poverty
Poverty is a core issue contributing to most of JMI’s other global initiatives. As JMI extends its services to every viable continent, we are committed to not only combating the symptoms of poverty – social orphans, human trafficking, spiritual hopelessness, war and threats of war, and inadequate education – but addressing poverty itself through the development of microenterprise opportunities.
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Every five seconds a child dies because he or she was hungry
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More than 110 million school-age children are not in school
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6,000 children die every day because of disease-infested drinking water
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150 million children in developing countries are malnourished
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15 million children around the world have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS
“The righteous care about justice for the poor,
but the wicked have no such concern.” – Proverbs 29:7
