why India?

India is home to 1.2 billion people with 800 million living on less than $2 per day.

TB is one of the leading causes of mortality in India - killing 2 persons every three minutes, nearly 1,000 every day

India accounts for 20 percent of the world's maternal deaths, with a woman dying every five minutes from childbirth

Largely for lack of clean water, 2.1 million children under the age of five die each year

Every day, about 200 girls in India enter prostitution against their will

47% of children under the age of five are undernourished