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  2. Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF - Wikipedia

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    Logo for the campaign Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF is a fund-raising program for children sponsored by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.Started on Halloween 1950 [1] as a local event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the program historically involves the distribution of small orange boxes by schools to trick-or-treaters, in which they can solicit small change ...

  3. Null Island - Wikipedia

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    Null Island is the location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude), i.e., where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. Since there is no landmass located at these coordinates, it is not an actual island. The name is often used in mapping software as a placeholder to help find and correct database entries that have ...

  4. Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic

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    The "Null Island" buoy in 2017. The Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic (PIRATA) [note 1] is a system of moored observation buoys in the tropical Atlantic Ocean which collect meteorological and oceanographic data. The data collected by the PIRATA array helps scientists to better understand climatic events in the Tropical ...

  5. UNICEF - Wikipedia

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    UNICEF (/ ˈ j uː n i ˌ s ɛ f / YOO-nee-SEF), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, [a] is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. [4] [5] The organization is one of the most ...

  6. Child mortality - Wikipedia

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    The total number of under-5 deaths worldwide has declined from 12.6 million in 1990 to approximately 5.5 million in 2020. Since 1990, the global under-5 mortality rate has dropped by 59%, from 93 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 36 in 2020. This is equivalent to 1 in 11 children dying before reaching age 5 in 1990 compared to 1 in 27 in 2019.

  7. List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty

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    The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert different currencies into a common, comparable unit and account for price differences across countries.

  8. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    In 2007, residents of Jale, a tiny Albanian beach hamlet on the Ionian Sea, found themselves in the path of a coastal cleanup effort backed by a $17.5 million loan from the World Bank. More than a dozen poor families lived in Jale, many in homes with add-ons and extra floors they rented to vacationers.

  9. Human right to water and sanitation - Wikipedia

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    The UN further emphasizes that "about 1.5 million children under the age of five die each year and 443 million school days are lost because of water- and sanitation-related diseases." [17] In 2022, over 2 billion people, 25% of the world's population, lacked consistent access to clean drinking water.