RESUME Hope Now: 2017 is the BEST year in HISTORY.

• 10% of world pop. now lives in extreme poverty (down from 90%)
• leprosy decreased 97% worldwide since ‘85, now easily treatable
• 100 million kid’s lives have saved through vaccinations
• 300,000 got electricity for the first time; 285,000 got first clean drinking water
• 85% of world can now READ (up from <50%)
• global war deaths far BELOW those of ‘50s-‘90s (VERY far below wartime ’40s).

Truth: We live in an inspiring, progressing world.