Did You Know?

855,000,000 people in the world are illiterate.
70% of them are female.

600,000 women — one every minute — die each year from pregnancy-related causes. Most of these deaths are preventable.

Every day 7000 young persons are infected with HIV/AIDS.

3 out of 4 fatalities of war are women and children.

80% of women in Pakistan experience violence within the home.

Every day, 6000 girls are genitally mutilated.

Every year in India, 5000 brides are murdered or commit suicide because their marriage dowries are considered inadequate.

70% of people in abject poverty are women—living on less than $1 per day.

From Women’s Learning Partnership (www.learningpartnership.org)

Considering that women make up 49% of the world’s population, and…

• form 35% of its paid labor force,
• head 33% of its households,
• make up 95% of its nurses,
• perform 62% of its work hours, yet receive just 10% of the world’s income,
• own 1% of its property,
• make up 70% of its poor,
• 66% of the illiterate,
• 80% of the refugees,
• 75% of the sick,

it seems to me that women in every country deserve special ministry strategies and special focus. –Justin D. Long, Global Evangelization Movement (GEM)

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