“Nothing is permanent here, except suffering. No job security, no food nor clothing. Accidents are common. Everybody here would leave if they had a choice.”
— Joyce Ejike, 28
More than 10,000 children and 25,000 people globally die every day due to hunger, according to the United Nations.
Nigeria has the awful distinction of being the world capital of poverty, with 71 million people living in extreme poverty today and 133 million people classed as multidimensionally poor according to National Bureau of Statistics data.
Two-thirds (67.5%) of children (0–17) are multidimensionally poor according to the National MPI, and half (51%) of all poor people are children.
79% of Women represent Nigeria's rural labor force but are five times less likely to own their own land than men. Women are also less likely to have had a decent education. Over three-quarters of the poorest women in Nigeria have never been to school and 94% of them are illiterate.
