Just the Numbers

• 4 yrs - the average time a child spends in American foster care before being adopted


• 1.5 million children live in public care in Central and Eastern Europe



• 12.4 million orphans live in Latin America and the Carribean

• 43.4 million orphans live in sub-Saharan Africa

• 87.6 million orphans live in Asia



• 16 million children were orphaned in 2003



• Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned as a result of AIDS




• 800,000 children in the American Foster Care system each year



• 143 Million orphans in the world

And the most startling numbers fact of all:

The fact that, if 7% of Christians adopted 1 child there would be no orphans in the world!