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Who We Serve

The Forgotten

“Forgotten people” can be found all across
the world. They are often women and
children who have very little and live at the
edge of life and death. They are people who
may never themselves escape poverty, but
with some help may give their children a
future free from the harsh circumstances
they have always known.

Most often they live in countries without
safety nets and are surrounded by others
who have accepted the notion that an
entire class of people can be treated as
societal waste. As a result, they become
invisible and are often left to die.
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The men, women and children living on the
margins of society are the very people TFI
serves.

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Many Indian families live like this, in
make-shift tents on a roadside,
surviving either by begging or doing
work others refuse to do. They make
barely enough money to survive the
day, and every day brings new
challenges. In years when there are
floods or droughts, war or famine, or if a
parent falls ill, there is little in the way of
resources for the poorest of the poor,
and life can get extremely difficult. As a
consequence, it can be said that poverty
is the cause of much of the world's
suffering.

Poverty Facts around the World:

** 850 million people go hungry every
    day.

** 29,158 children under the age of five
    die each day from mostly preventable
    causes.

** 3,900 children die each day because
    of lack of access to safe water and
    adequate sanitation.

** 536,000 women die each year from
    complications due to pregnancy and
    childbirth.

The Forgotten International
San Francisco, California
United States
info@theforgottenintl.org

For the 1.9 billion children from the developing world, there are:

640 million without adequate shelter (1 in 3);
400 million with no access to safe water (1 in 5);
270 million with no access to health services (1 in 7);
180 million work in the worst forms of child labor;
140 million have never attended school, and
2 million, mostly girls, trafficked and exploited in the sex industry.

Information obtained from UNICEF, 2007

Some Facts on India:

Of India's 1.1 billion people, 250
million live in the type of poverty
described here. The United Nations
calls this "extreme poverty."

In India the caste system is very
much ingrained in the culture. At
present 16% of the population, about
170 million people, are Dalits, also
known as "Untouchables." They are
among the world's poorest people.