Facts & Statistics

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It is estimated there are between 143 million and 210 million orphans worldwide (recent UNICEF)

 
 Every day 5,760 more children become orphans.
Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, but…
Each year 14, 505, 000 children grow up as orphans and age out of the system by age sixteen.
Each day 38,493 orphans age out.
Every 2.2 seconds another orphan ages out with no family to belong to and no place to call home.
  9http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2003/InternationalAdoptionRateinUSDoubledinthe190s.aspx
Studies have shown that 10% – 15% of these children commit suicide before they reach age eighteen.
These studies also show that 60% of the girls become prostitutes and 70% of the boys become hardened criminals.
 Another study reported that of the 15,000 orphans aging out of state-run institutions every year, 10% committed suicide, 5,000 were unemployed, 6,000 were homeless and 3,000 were in prison within three years…
 An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked every year; (THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2005)

2 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually exploited in the multibillion-dollar commercial sex industry. (THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2005)http://www.orphanhelpers.org/Blog/tabid/327/entryid/3323/orphan-statistics.aspx#.U_yHSWM0fTp