This is where our journey begins.

According to the UNICEF, across the world, about 1 billion children are multidimensionally poor, meaning they lack necessities as basic as nutrition or clean water. Some 150 million additional children have been plunged into multidimensional poverty due to COVID-19.

An estimated 356 million children live in extreme poverty.

Parents too often lack the resources to give their children what they need.

For too many families, access to health care is a luxury, and opportunities for education and employment are severely limited.

The consequences are grave. Worldwide, the poorest children are twice as likely to die in childhood than their wealthier peers. For those growing up in humanitarian crises, the risks of deprivation and exclusion surge. Even in the world’s richest countries, one in seven children still live in poverty. 

Today, one in four children in the European Union are at risk of falling into poverty.

No matter where they are, children who grow up impoverished suffer from poor living standards, develop fewer skills for the workforce, and earn lower wages as adults.

Yet only a limited number of Governments have set the elimination of child poverty as a national priority.