Children & Statistics

I found this clock at the UN's Human Development Report website:

It contrasts the grim reality of the current global child mortality rate with the promise of saving many lives if we manage to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

My corresponding quotes for the week are these:

"There is something about poverty that smells like death."
—Zora Neale Hurston (American folklorist and Writer, 1903-1960)

"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future"
—John Fitzgerald Kennedy (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)