childhood in india

hi
the following post is about drastic life of poor children in India.
-statics reveled that India has 17 million child labourers--highest in the world.
-53% of girls under age group 5-12 are illiterate.
-about 17% of slum children of world belongs to India.
-314,700 children lives in streets of Mumbai,same in kolkata,100,000 in new Delhi and about 963,000 in other cities of India.
MAKING MOVIES SUCH AS "SLUMDOG MILLIONARE" AND WINNING OSCAR WILL NOT HELP THEM!!!

children facts

hi
facts about children all over the world
-English speaking kids are world's biggest novel readers-but least enthusiastic comic readers.
-Japanese and south Korean kids are best at science and maths.
-kids at Mali only spend about 2 years on average in school.they start working between ages of 10-14.
-American adults spend more time in education then anyone.
-over 59million children in India have no access to school.
-out of 27 million children born in India,2 million do not survive to celebrate their first birthday.

this post was about kids all over the world but my next post will be about kids of India and poverty in India.
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