Www.MCEnterprises.org Our Global Village If there were only 100 people in the entire world…

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Our Global Village

If there were only 100 peoplein the entire world…


Our village has neighborhoods

One neighborhood has 61 AsiansAnother has 13 Africans12 Europeans are in towns8 Hispanics live in a barrio5 Americans in the suburbs


We speak many languages

22 villagers speak Chinese9 speak English9 converse in Hindi7 talk in Spanish4 each speak Bengali & Arabic3 chat in Russian or Portuguese2 each speak in Japanese,

French & German


Our village worships many Gods

32 villagers are Christians20 are Muslims 15 are atheists or not religious13 are Hindu11 practice a folk religion 6 are Buddhists1 is a Jew


Our village is divided equally between women and men


Men in our village live 61 years; Women live 3 years longer


30 of us are children under the age of 15


25 villagers are women of childbearing age


63 of us have jobs; 37 do not


1 villager has a college education 17 of us cannot read or write


33 people in our village live in poverty housing


18 villagers do not have safe, clean water in their homes


40 villagers do not have a sanitary toilet


10 rich people earn 54% of the village’s total income


20 of our mothers, daughters and sisters have been raped


Our village spends 10 times more on weapons than on well-being


20 villagers survive on $1.00/day 51 get by on $2.00/day


70 of us are hungry every day Some of us are not


One Year in Our Village

3,000 people died at the World Trade Center in New York (2001)

300,000 people died from a tsunami in the Indian Ocean (2004)

11 million children died from starvation (every year)


If you keep your food in a refrigerator

And your clothes in a closet,

If you have a roof over your head

And a bed to sleep in,

You are richer than 75% of the world’s

population.

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Acknowledgements

Data Sources at MicroCredit Enterprises.

Photo credits: Freedom from Hunger, Jacob Holdt Gallery, KrystaalTal Gallery, Pan American Health Organization, Peter Langer Media Group, United Nations, Webshots Gallery, World Bank.

Special Thanks to the book If The World Were A Village for the concept.

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