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I'm tired of being bombarded with negative news. How about good news for a change. The following is an excerpt from: Hope Rising: How Christians Can End Extreme Poverty in This Generation. (pp. 23 – 24).  Who knew...ending extreme poverty really is possible. Check this out:

These statistics will shock you. You may wonder why you haven't seen them before:

• From 2000 to 2011, the number of kids dying from measles has declined by 71 percent (from 542,000 deaths per year to 158,000) because we are completing the work of immunizing every child.
  
  
•  Worldwide, between 2000 and 2012, estimated malaria mortality rates fell by 45 percent in all age groups ... and most of them (3 million) were kids.
  
• We used to say that 40,000 children die each day from preventable causes. Since 1990 the global under-five mortaility rate has dropped 47% from 90 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 48 in 2012.
  
• Every day there are 20,000 fewer children dying of preventable causes – every day! ... If we keep our current pace of progress, we will soon live in a world where massive numbers of children will no longer die of preventable causes.
  
• In 2000 there were 102 million children of primary school age not in school – mainly due to poverty. By 2011 that number had been cut in half, to 57 million. That's 45 million children getting an education. Literacy rates are climbing. Those gains were made in less than 10 years.
   
• The number of HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths has fallen dramatically, according to a UN report. Death rates fell from 2.3 million during its peak in 2005 to 1.6 million last year, says UNAIDS. The number of new HIV infections fell by a third since 2001 to 2.3 million.