14,000 children live below poverty line

14,000 children live below the poverty line in Serbia. Roma, children without parental care and disabled children are in the worst position.

Izvor: Tanjug

Sunday, 09.10.2011.

15:22

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14,000 children live below the poverty line in Serbia. Roma, children without parental care and disabled children are in the worst position. Despite the grim statistics, Serbia has made progress in protection of children’s rights. 14,000 children live below poverty line According to Equality Protection Assistant Commissioner Kosana Beker, by “adopting good laws Serbia has gotten the tools that could be used to make progress in protection of children’s rights”. Deputy Ombudsman Tamara Luksic Orlandic has also assessed that progress has been made in all areas of protection of children’s rights, especially when it comes to children with disabilities. “Undoubtedly, there is progress in all areas, inclusion in the education has started, as well as the process of moving children from large institutions to small, home communities,” she stressed. Luksic Orlandic said that it was hard to make optimistic prognosis in a country where there were hungry children at schools because their parents did not have the money for lunch, children who crossed kilometers on foot to get to their schools and children living in the streets because the state did not have enough funds to create prevention programs. Labor and Social Policy Minister Rasim Ljajic said that the biggest problem was poverty and that 14,000 children lived below the poverty line in Serbia. He pointed out that every 14th child lived below the poverty line in 2008 and that every eighth child lived in such conditions in 2011. The minister stressed that the fact that about 48,000 people were getting their meals at soup kitchens and that 6,221 of them were children was alarming.

14,000 children live below poverty line

According to Equality Protection Assistant Commissioner Kosana Beker, by “adopting good laws Serbia has gotten the tools that could be used to make progress in protection of children’s rights”.

Deputy Ombudsman Tamara Lukšić Orlandić has also assessed that progress has been made in all areas of protection of children’s rights, especially when it comes to children with disabilities.

“Undoubtedly, there is progress in all areas, inclusion in the education has started, as well as the process of moving children from large institutions to small, home communities,” she stressed.

Lukšić Orlandić said that it was hard to make optimistic prognosis in a country where there were hungry children at schools because their parents did not have the money for lunch, children who crossed kilometers on foot to get to their schools and children living in the streets because the state did not have enough funds to create prevention programs.

Labor and Social Policy Minister Rasim Ljajić said that the biggest problem was poverty and that 14,000 children lived below the poverty line in Serbia.

He pointed out that every 14th child lived below the poverty line in 2008 and that every eighth child lived in such conditions in 2011.

The minister stressed that the fact that about 48,000 people were getting their meals at soup kitchens and that 6,221 of them were children was alarming.

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