And every year, countless numbers of them are stopped in their tracks - deprived, in one way or another, of the love, care, nurturing, health, nutrition and safe environment that they need to grow, develop - and to learn.
"According to the approach developed by UNICEF and MOLISA since 2006, about one third of all children in Viet Nam are poor – this means that they are deprived in at least two areas identified as essential to children's development and well-being, such as health, education, sanitation, or nutrition.
The National Diabetes Audit revealed that "the most deprived in the UK are two and a half times more likely to have diabetes" and that "complications of diabetes such as heart disease, stroke and kidney damage are three and a half times higher in the lower socio-economic groups" [ 21].
He also discovered the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Adler (he served briefly as a voluntary social worker with deprived children in one of the latter's clinics in the 1920s), and listened entranced to a lecture which Einstein gave in Vienna on relativity theory.
Kintrea has just completed a study looking at two deprived estates and two mixed areas in Edinburgh and Glasgow, assessing to what extent mixed areas can offer a solution to social exclusion.
Our case is the Quattro Study, a pragmatic trial on the effectiveness of multidisciplinary patient care teams used in primary health care centres in deprived neighbourhoods of two major cities in the Netherlands for intensified secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
Our case is the Quattro Study, a pragmatic trial on the effectiveness of multidisciplinary patient care teams used in primary health care centres in deprived neighbourhoods of two major cities in the Netherlands for intensified secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD).
HMRC had challenged this practice, known as "switching," arguing that the public were being deprived of tax in two ways.
One strength of the study is that we have accessed some of the most deprived people living in two UK cities and have gathered mixed methods data from two very different communities.
In 1990, five wards in the least deprived and fifteen wards in the most deprived tertiles had at least one supermarket.
