Poor Children

Children and Poverty

Each day, more than 30,000 children die of poverty-related causes. Today, poverty kills one child every 3 seconds. Children are the primary victims of poverty, and poverty is the principal cause of violations pertaining to Children’s Rights.

Definition of Child Poverty

A general definition of poverty is “a state of existence in which one lacks many of life’s basic necessities.” The poor person is someone “who lacks what he needs”; and a poor child is “a very young boy or girl who lacks much of what is needed to survive.”