Sharing Is Caring - Please Tell Your Friends
Thanks to your generous contributions and continued sponsorship, CFC volunteers work around the clock all around the world. Today, we are housing hundreds of orphans in India, feeding thousands in Africa, supporting poor children in the Azores and providing financial support and rehabilitation centers in Brazil. Visit our Mission Page to learn more about how your donations are being used to save children across the globe.
Statistics About Guinea-Bissau
- Two-thirds of its population of 1.5 million people live in poverty.
- An estimated 41.5 million orphaned children living in Africa, , over 110,000 of those living in Guinea-Bissau (UNICEF).
With tough economic times plaguing our Global Community, this is a crucial time to help those who cannot help themselves. To embrace one of our Causes as an organization or group, please complete our Contact Form and one of our Directors will contact you. View our Current Funding Campaigns to see what Needs we are working on meeting.
Statistics About Brazil
In 2006, UNICEF estimated that 9,100,000 children in Brazil are living in poverty
Up to 8 million children live and/or work on the streets.
About 42% of Brazilian children live in poverty.
Approximately 1/8 of all Brazilian children live on the streets.
In 2010, there were 473,600 people incarcerated in Brazilian prisons and jails. Drugs are responsible for 85,000 of the total tally.
