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
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