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Benjamin Mkapa

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When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.
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At the United Nations' 60th summit, 2005-09-16

 
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