Children at risk

Roughly one out of every ten children - 220 million children worldwide - is facing life's challenges without adequate care and support.

Children can lose parental care or risk losing it for various reasons. Except for orphanhood, the reasons why children grow up alone or without the needed support of a parent are usually preventable.


Loss of parents

Worldwide, there are more than 300,000 maternal deaths every year, equivalent to 830 per day (2015 data).