Frightening Facts

Winzer & Mazurek article (2009)

• Only 2% of the estimated 150 million disabled children receive special needs services
• Only 1-2% of children with disabilities have access to social, medical or educational services
• Every year, approx. 500,000 children lose some or all of their vision due to vitamin A deficiencies
• 40% of the 26,000 people killed or maimed by landmines are children
• 90% of children with disabilities living in developing countries don't have access to schooling

UNESCO Report 2000

•  less than 110 million children - 60% of them girls - had no access to primary education
•  at least 880 million adults were illiterate
•  less than a third of more than 800 million children (6 years and less) benefitted from early childhood care/education

UNESCO Report 2008

• about 75 million children still have no access to education

UNICEF 

• estimates that only 1 in 50 children with disabilities has access to education