Some facts on Haiti for ya

• The government is not able to provide the resources to educate the nation's next generation.
  


• The unemployment rate is over 80%.
  


• More than half of Haitians live on less than a dollar a day.
  


• There are few paved roads, an inadequate supply of potable water, minimal utilities, and depleted forests.
  


• About 60% of the population lives in abject poverty.
  


• Less than 20% of Haitians age 15 and over can read and write.
  


• Fewer than 75% of children attend school.
  


• 40% of the Haitian population does not have access to primary health care.
  


• The United Nations estimates 6% of Haitians are infected with HIV/AIDS. The highest rate in the Western Hemisphere. An estimated 30,000 people die of AIDS every year.
  


• One in twenty Haitians is infected with HIV/AIDS and there are over 150,000 AIDS orphans.


• 10% of the child population in Haiti will die before the age of 4.


• 7% (300,000) of the children in Haiti are enslaved. They are as young as 3 years old. They often suffer sexual, emotional, physical abuse and possibly death.