スペインのある親子は、学校給食費の援助が廃止されたので学校給食の時間に教会経営の無料食堂に子供を連れて食べさせに行く。往復6km。
Seis kilómetros a pie para comer
Una madre y sus dos hijos van cada día a Casa Caridad a mediodía y vuelven luego a clase
La presencia de menores en los comedores de la organización se ha duplicado en un año
Los directores constatan que cada vez hay más niños que hacen su comida principal en el centro
Pilar Almenar Vara Valencia 26 MAY 2013 - 21:30 CET
Six mile walk to eat
A mother and her two children are every day at Charity House at noon and then return to class
The presence of children in the dining rooms of the organization has doubled in a year
Managers find that more and more children making their main meal in the middle
Vara Almenar Pilar Valencia 26 MAY 2013 - 21:30 CET
Petra, married, 37, has picked up their children from noon to seven and nine years of school to feed them. Since they ran out of room scholarship have to fend off center. Nor do at home. About two in the afternoon, enter the Charity House building in the Paseo de la Pendant of Valencia. They walked from the neighborhood Orriols. Three mile walk to eat and three to return. They must hurry because this afternoon the children have class again. "The bus is money, we have legs," said the mother watching the little play around.
"The other day I got an A +!" Says the oldest child with mischievous look after his round rimmed glasses. Two and half years ago that Petra and her husband came to the Czech Republic where the scourge of the crisis hit and sank his small textile business. At first all went well and Petra rose in use in a vegetable store Meliana (Valencia). But the company closed a year ago and lost his job. Her husband, cervical operated, can not work. The meal grant them covered only 70% of the course and in the last two months Petra has had to find another way out. "Not that I'm ashamed, but I get a little," he says looking away from his blue eyes.
The number of children in the dining room at Casa Caridad increases in vacation
Charity House attended by 2012 children twice last year. Up to 11,600 children, most between 4 and 11 years, were given food and shelter in the dining rooms and shelters of the organization in Valencia. The 8.4% goes to eat daily to Charity House did not have access to school meals for 2012-2013, according to the Seventh Report of the Poverty in Valencia.
The profile of those calling for social care is changing. They are no longer homeless families but had never required social services. In 2013, the presence of entire families grew by 64% in the canteens of Charity House has had to open a new room in Valencia to meet them. Children's attendance in school holidays intensifies. This past March, 155 children were to eat at the association. Holy Thursday was the date with greater presence of children, with 78 children in a single day. In April, 160 children ate at Casa Caridad.
There is no official data on how many children do their main meal at school. Neither the Ministry of Education, and Welfare, and the Federation of Associations of Parents of Students report having received specific complaints, but when approaching schools, things change.
There is no official data on
how many children do their
main meal at school
"More and more children whose main meal, stronger and more formal school make. That is a reality that we find and that this year there has been "explains Vincent Ripoll, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Centres and Primary. "We have many families who are seeking help from Caritas to pay for the room".
"I do not know how people survive, but survive," says Manuel Bermejo, director of the Public School Orriols Miguel Hernandez, one of the districts with the largest number of immigrants. In the center studied 500 children. Bermejo said it has issued about 100 licenses in the past year for families who have asked for help from Caritas.
Scholarships for school meals may be 70 or 100% of the cost. "In my view, this year we have distributed scholarships evil because he has had 70% of families with incomes ranging from 9,000 to 16,000 euros per year. And these two extremes correspond to very different realities, "says Vincent Ripoll. "There are those who have benefited from the 70% and others with incomes so low that they can not pay the 28 euros per month per child. In this situation there are more families than we think, "he adds.
A defaults on families who can not cope with the amount of debt adds room of the Generalitat Valenciana, which must in schools seven of the eight months of scholarships. More and more complicated to manage a scarce resource. "We are at the end of the year and we owe a debt of 2,370 euros. Practically we will not charge because they are cases where assistance or have a small dining or cases where they missed the deadline of aid, "says Manuel Bermejo.
Some public schools accept private aid giving
"A month ago my school had a deficit of 2,500 euros", says the director of a school of Benimàmet, who does not want to give his name because he fears counseling problems. "I owe money to the Government and I have to make numbers. Paying lunchroom workers every month costs me a fortune. If I have debt above families, I can not pay. " Account that 25% of students makes the main meal of the day at school: "On April 30 I had to say who had not paid the May 2 had to go home. And they are just the most vulnerable. But I had no choice! Because people ask a family member or Caritas, and pay. And these people, with the effort made, you can not say that others leave continue eating without paying because they complain. "
In this new situation, some public schools are accepting help from private companies to implement feeding programs or attend defaults. Hasbro The multinational has launched a program to support Singular School Care Centres (Caes) who bear the costs of breakfast, lunch and school meals for pupils at risk of social exclusion. The cooperative Consum supports some centers that have donated food and dining management companies are taking center defaults. But how long?
"The public will demand what belongs contribute but also, I will not give up anything lawful that may not come from the public administration," says Manuel Bermejo. The headmistress of Benimàmet goes further: "The food in public schools should be funded at 100%. No food can not be studied or can learn. "
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