A Country in Crisis

• There are 5 MILLION orphans living in the Congo alone. (The population of the entire state of Indiana is 6.5 million.)

• Only 46% of the population has access to clean water.

• The life expectancy is 49 years

• Congo has been named as the worst place on earth to be a woman- worse than Afghanistan!

• 5.4 million people have died in the Congo Conflict since 1998- the world's deadliest conflict since WWII

• Most deaths are non-violent, but prevelant because of the conflict's implications- things like malaria, malnutrition, diarrhea and pneumonia

• 19% of the population is children, 47% of these preventable deaths are those kids

• Even today, with violence decreased, there are still about 1.5 million displaced refugees

• Every month, about 45,000 people still die because of the conflict