Children in crisis-hit Greece

  • Greece has the highest child poverty rate at 40.5% (up from 23% in 2008) among 23 countries in the developed world – (2014) CHILDREN OF THE RECESSION: THE IMPACT OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS ON CHILD WELLBEING IN RICH COUNTRIES- UNICEF REPORT
  • 1 in 3 children are running the risk of poverty and social exclusion: 686,000 children, 35,4% of the child population in the country – (2014) STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2014 UNICEF REPORT
  • 292.000 children are living in families where adults are not employed and therefore they do not have access to health services – (2014) STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2014 UNICEF REPORT
  • The percentage of households with children unable to afford a meal with meat, chicken, fish or a vegetable equivalent every second day more than doubled in Greece (18%) – (2014) CHILDREN OF THE RECESSION: THE IMPACT OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS ON CHILD WELLBEING IN RICH COUNTRIES- UNICEF REPORT

Every day hundreds of thousands of families and their children are in a desperate situation

Every day hundreds of thousands of families and their children are facing:

  • Serious welfare problems that have to do with the lack of basic goods, crucial for the sound development  and well being of every child
  • Lack of social welfare structures
  • Social exclusion
  • Free Access to Health services
  • Lack of vaccination for children and medical treatment
  • Lack of medicine and medical care services for children
  • Lack of Mobile Medical Units of intensive care for newborns and children

In Greece the crisis is escalating and children are running the risk of lacking their basic and self-evident rights: food, medicine, education…

Children in Greece are running the risk of lacking what we should be providing them with for their well being!

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  1. We’d like to help set up sponsorship for the children in your care from the UK. Ideally, we’d like to sponsor one of the children and help you share your charity so you can obtain sponsors for all the children.

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  2. Hi there,
    I’m writing this letter from Canada. Is there any way to adapt a kid from your organization?

    Thanks

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