1. www.MCEnterprises.org Our Global Village If there were only 100 people in the entire world…

2. www.MCEnterprises.org Our village has neighborhoods One neighborhood has 61 Asians Another has 13 Africans 12 Europeans are in towns 8 Hispanics live in a barrio 5 Americans in the suburbs

3. www.MCEnterprises.org We speak many languages 22 villagers speak Chinese 9 speak English 9 converse in Hindi 7 talk in Spanish 4 each speak Bengali & Arabic 3 chat in Russian or Portuguese 2 each speak in Japanese, French & German

4. www.MCEnterprises.org Our village worships many Gods 32 villagers are Christians 20 are Muslims 15 are atheists or not religious 13 are Hindu 11 practice a folk religion 6 are Buddhists 1 is a Jew

5. www.MCEnterprises.org Our village is divided equally between women and men

6. www.MCEnterprises.org Men in our village live 61 years; Women live 3 years longer

7. www.MCEnterprises.org 30 of us are children under the age of 15

8. www.MCEnterprises.org 25 villagers are women of childbearing age

9. www.MCEnterprises.org 63 of us have jobs; 37 do not

10. www.MCEnterprises.org 1 villager has a college education 17 of us cannot read or write

11. www.MCEnterprises.org 33 people in our village live in poverty housing

12. www.MCEnterprises.org 18 villagers do not have safe, clean water in their homes

13. www.MCEnterprises.org 40 villagers do not have a sanitary toilet

14. www.MCEnterprises.org 10 rich people earn 54% of the village’s total income

15. www.MCEnterprises.org 20 of our mothers, daughters and sisters have been raped

16. www.MCEnterprises.org Our village spends 10 times more on weapons than on well-being

17. www.MCEnterprises.org 20 villagers survive on $1.00/day 51 get by on $2.00/day

18. www.MCEnterprises.org 70 of us are hungry every day Some of us are not

19. www.MCEnterprises.org One Year in Our Village 3,000 people died at the World Trade Center in New York (2001) 300,000 people died from a tsunami in the Indian Ocean (2004) 11 million children died from starvation (every year)

20. www.MCEnterprises.org If you keep your food in a refrigerator And your clothes in a closet, If you have a roof over your head And a bed to sleep in, You are richer than 75% of the world’s population. Get Involved!

21. www.MCEnterprises.org Acknowledgements Data Sources at MicroCredit Enterprises. Photo credits: Freedom from Hunger, Jacob Holdt Gallery, KrystaalTal Gallery, Pan American Health Organization, Peter Langer Media Group, United Nations, Webshots Gallery, World Bank. Special Thanks to the book If The World Were A Village for the concept.