There are 132 million orphans in the world — children, by UNICEF's definition, who have lost one or both parents.

13 million of these have lost both parents.

And this number — it doesn't even take into account the hundreds of thousands of children who have been abandoned, including the more than 600,000 abandoned REPORTED children who now dwell in Chinese orphanages. (Organizations inside China report that number of children closer to 1 million.)

Because those children, though they LIVE like orphans, technically have living parents who abandoned them and thus, don't meet the criteria to be counted as "orphans".

That number — it’s shocking. It’s appalling. It’s daunting. 

Because no person can TRULY picture the faces of that many innocent, deserving superheroes lying in orphanage beds and foster homes and places far less comfortable, convenient or full of care.  

Some starving.

Some dying.  

All hoping that someone will see their plight.  

All praying that SOMEONE will change their grim-ending story.