Why should I care

• 13,40,000 children below 5 die in a year, that is 3,671 under 5 child deaths per day.
• Nearly half of all child deaths under 5 in Africa are attributed to undernutrition.
• More than half (56%) of the under 5 deaths occur within the first 28 days of life, we work to prevent these lives
• Africa accounts for more than 3 out of 10 stunted children in the world.
• 17.7 million children and adolescents are out of school in Africa, this is 14% of world's population of children out of school.
• 20% of grade 2 children in Africa cannot recognize numbers 1-9; 53% of children drop out of school at elementary level.
• 49.5% of grade 5 children cannot do subtraction and 55% of grade 8 children cannot solve 3 digits by 1 digit division problem; 51.09% of grade 5 children cannot read grade 2 English and 25.4% children of grade 8 cannot read grade 2 text.