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!