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Panama 2009 - UNICEF (Monday, February 23rd, 2009)

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PANAMA, 23rd of march 2009, more than 30,000 school-age boys and girls in the indigenous areas of the Ngobe Buglé, Emberá-Wounáan, Kuna Yala, the Darien province, and other emergency-declared areas, received a pair of Crocs™ footwear as a health promotion intervention aimed at reducing skin infections, fungus growth, and other infectious diseases linked to bare feet.

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many children cannot

go to school without the basic necessity such as a pair of shoes.

in ethiopia, one million people

suffer from a disease caused by walking barefoot in volcanic soil [...] (globalshift.org)

millions of people

around the world cannot afford basic necessities such as a pair of shoes.

more than 300 million people

live on less than $1 a day (”globalissues.org”).

2.6 billion people

in the world lack basic sanitation (”globalissues.org”).

some 1.1 billion people

in developing countries have inadequate access to water (”globalissues.org”).

nearly a billion people

entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names (”globalissues.org”).

over 1.4 billion people

globally live on less than $1.25 per day (”Worldbank.org”).

35.9 million people

live below the poverty line in America, including 12.9 million children (”soundvision.com”).

1.7 billion people

live in poverty globally (”Wikipedia.org”).