26,500 children are dying today.

Ever the procrastinator, I am preparing a talk to give to a United Methodist Women's circle tonight. I was going to talk about my June 2006 trip to Zambia, but I started looking up current statistics about poverty, children and women in the world and got immersed in information. With tears in my eyes, I have to share about some statistics I found about children dying:

Around the world, some 26,500 children die every day.

That is equivalent to:

• 1 child dying every 3 seconds
• 18 children dying every minute
• A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every week
• An Iraq-scale death toll every 15–36 days
• Almost 10 million children dying every year
• Some 60 million children dying between 2000 and 2006

The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. In spite of the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage.
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My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it?
"Look," He answered,
"your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world."
~~Rumi