I'm going to tell you a few facts that will make you want to do something.

5 people die of AIDs every minute.

Mone mosquito net can keep a child safe from mosquitoes that carry the disease maleria.

Bangladesh has stopped more than 2 million children from dying by making sure more children get vacinated against dieases.

A coach load of children die every 3 minutes from preventable dieseases.

Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) seeks to reduce the rate of young children dying by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015.

It costs just $2.50 to buy 5 sachets of Oral Rehiydration Salts. These salts can help children who're very weak from dehydration get better.

Article 6 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) says that children have a right to life, survival and development.

The G8 is a group of the governments - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America - who get together to discuss global issues, like how to reduce the number of children dying every year.

Save the Children set up 13 special baby care centres in Rajasthan, India so that mothers can get food and healthcare advise for their babies.

14 countries have actually seen an increase in the rate of children dying since 1990.

Babies who are breast fed for their first six months are 15 times less likey to die of pneumonia, than those who are not.

Children born in poor countries are 17 times more likely to die than those in rich countries.

20L of water is the minimum amount that a person needs every day for basic health and hygiene. (That's the same as 10 big fizzy drink bottles.)

25% of children born is Sierra Leone, Africa will die before their 5th birthday.

35% of child deaths are linked to malnutrition - children don't have enough to eat, or the right kinds of nutritious foods to eat.

Save the Children (charity) is helping children in 40 of the worlds poorest countries.

50% of all dealths in children under 5 take place in just 6 countries: India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Pakistan and China.

99% of all deaths in children under 5 happen in developing countries.

A mother in sub-Saharan Africa is nearly 100 times more likely than a mother in a developing country to lose her child in the first five years of life.

For every 1,000 children born in sub-Saharan Africa, 160 will die during childhood. (That compares to just 6 per 1,000 in the UK).

A childs risk of dying on their fist day of life is 500 times greater then their risk of dying when they are one month old.

In 2000, world governments committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - eight promises to reduce world poverty and make life better for children.

In 2006, Save the Children (charity) worked with the UK and Zambian governments to make healthcare free for all children in rural Zambia, Africa.

According to current trends, by 2015 there will actually be more malnourished children then there are today.

Midwives specially trained by Save the Children (charity) safely delivered mre than 4,500 babies in one province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, in one year.

Save the Children (charity) treated more than 49,000 malnourished children in Niger, West Africa, from Janurary 2006 to march 2007. We gave them nutritious food and medical help.

In Vietnam, children trained by Save the Children (charity) talked to almost 72,000 other children about how to prevent HIV and AIDs.

Save the Children (charity) has set up hospitals and health centres to help 250,000 people in Afghanistan.

Mother-child transmission of HIV leads to nearly 350,000 child deaths every year. (Mothers pass on HIV to their unborn child in the womb.)

500,000 woman die each year as a result of complications during prenancy and child-birth - either because they didn't have good healthcare, or because they were weak from not having enough nutritious food.

Save the Children (charity) vaccinated 600,000 children against measles after the civil war in Liberia, West Africa.

800,000 children die from maleria every year in sub-Saharan Africa.

2 million babies die on their first day of life.

10 million children under the age of 5 die every year, largely from diseases that we know how to prevent.

1.1 billion people don't have enough water for their basic needs. They only have 5L a day - that's the same as 2.5 big fizzy drink botttles. Could you survive on that little water a day for all your washing, cleaning, drinking etc...

We have a chance to change all this sad things that are going on but we don't.