Sometimes we think that in order to find situations of poverty and exclusion we have to travel to developing countries, but the reality is that in our environment the crisis means we don't have to look so far. 27% of Spanish children are at risk of poverty or exclusion, according to UNICEF data.
They are not new data, but they are superior to those estimated in a previous report we are talking about. Hopefully 2014 is really the "green shoots", but so far we have been plummeting, unemployment and the crisis in general are primed with the most vulnerable and many children suffer hardships around us.
Specifically, according to the president of Unicef-Spain, Consuelo Crespo, more than 2,200,000 children are affected, which leads her to ask that efforts against the crisis focus, not on macroeconomics, but on people.
Problems such as malnutrition or difficulties in buying school supplies they are observed (or sadly intuited) in the day-to-day lives of many neighborhoods, in many neighborhoods, and these children are at high risk of exclusion. "Beneficial" school canteens are a sad reality.
To avoid this, more social assistance is necessary, but at the time we are going through this request it is almost impossible. The solidarity of others and empathy for those of us who can help something individually, begins with the knowledge of this situation.
Therefore, despite not being good news, despite not agreeing with the happiness (sometimes unreality) that these days surround us, I think these bites of reality are necessary: 27% of Spanish children are at risk of poverty or exclusion. Some children cannot go to school, and others are in the classrooms with our children.
