Villages

Action Haiti – Earthquake Relief Campaign
  • Rate of homelessness: ~30%
  • Poverty rate: 80% live on less than $1USD/day
  • Access to food/water: 1 – 2 hour walk to clean water
  • Literacy rate: 5 – 10%
Asabiem, Ghana
  • Poverty rate: below GHC 10.00 annually (USA $10.00 or $0.03 a day)
  • Malaria: 58%
  • Diarrhea: 36%
Chicago-Ford Heights
  • Illinois high school graduation rates: 52% Af Am. / 60% Hispanic / 83% Caucasian and Asian
  • Chicago college graduation rate 35%within 6 years / Chicago Heights graduation rate is 17%
  • Those with a B.S. degree earn 73% more than those with only a high school
    diploma (same period worked)
  • Lifetime earnings: $1 million dollars high school vs. $2.5 million for college graduate
  • Better ACT scores in Chicago-land correlate with higher real estate values (as much as $100,000 for each ACT score above 22)
Leogane, Haiti
  • Rate of homelessness: ~30%
  • Poverty rate: 80% live on less than $1USD/day
  • Access to food/water: 1 – 2 hour walk to clean water
  • Literacy rate: 5 – 10%
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