Nigeria is in 161st place out of 189 countries and territories in 2019 when ranked in
terms of life expectancy, literacy, access to knowledge and the
living standards of a country with a life expectancy of just 54.69 years (2019). Whilst Nigeria should
be one of the richest countries in the world with vast oil
reserves and a plentiful workforce, over 65% of the country's
population live under the poverty line and half of those live in
abject poverty. Twenty million children suffer from malnutrition,
one in five of all children die before their fifth birthday,
HIV/AIDS affects three out of every hundred citizens and there are
nearly ten million orphans in the country out of a total
population of some 158 million.
Only around 1% of Nigerian children are immunised against basic childhood
illness due to perceived corruption and incompetence with the Nigerian government spending
less on healthcare per capita than virtually any other country in Africa. Child sponsor programs in Nigeria focus on providing care for orphaned and abandoned children, increasing
educational access particularly for girls, alleviating poverty, promoting
children's rights as well as developing AIDs awareness and promoting health
care programs for the country's poorest children. You can help
when your sponsor a child in Nigeria.
Child Sponsor Nigeria; SOS Children's Villages
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Child Sponsor Nigeria: Sponsor a Child Nigeria
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Child Sponsor Nigeria: Caritas
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Child Sponsor Nigeria: Nigeria Children
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Child Sponsor Nigeria: Volunteer in Nigeria
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