Every 6 seconds, a child under 5 dies from causes linked to extreme poverty—malnutrition, lack of clean water, preventable diseases. That’s 4.8 million children every year. These numbers come from UNICEF’s 2025 report, which recorded 13,100 under-five deaths per day in 2023. Deaths that are overwhelmingly preventable. This isn’t about scarcity. The world produces enough food, has enough medicine and enough wealth. It’s about distribution and the systems that prioritize profit over people.
The Bible is clear: faith without action is dead. In Isaiah 58, God rejects empty religious rituals and demands justice: “Share your food with the hungry… do not turn away from your own flesh and blood.” In Matthew 25, Jesus says: “Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” Ignoring the suffering of the poor is not just neglect, it’s spiritual failure. Christians are called to stand in the gap, not look the other way.
We had the tools to end extreme poverty a generation ago. Clean water, vaccines, food security and education. None of these are mysteries. What’s missing is will. We’ve chosen comfort, profit, and indifference over justice. Ending extreme poverty was never a question of possibility, it’s always been a question of priority.