Many of these children accept job offers that ultimately result in their being sold as slaves. Millions of girls are sex slaves today, simply because they were unfortunate enough to grow up as orphans. Reliable statistics are difficult to find, even the sources often list only estimates, and street children are rarely included.
But even if these figures are exaggerated by double, it is still an unacceptable tragedy that over a million children would still become orphans every year, and every year 7 million children would still grow to adulthood as orphans with no one to belong to and no place to call home.
Business is the perfect avenue to provide for the needs of vulnerable children around the world. As stated above, there are 143,000,000 orphans worldwide. This is a worldwide crisis and there is a desperate need to intervene.
Sources: http://www.hfgf.org/statistics.pdf