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We children say: Do something against poverty!
We have discovered what children urgently need for living: Food, clothing, a
home, parents, friends, love, security and acceptance.
We children say: Not all the children in Germany have all these!
There are so many poor and sad children in our country and in the world!
We children find that this cannot go on!
This is a scandal!
Pov erty
You grown-ups, do something, don’t just talk!
Resolved by the Children’s Summit children on 8 th June 2008 at the Children’s
Summit 1 in Haus Villigst.
Why a Campaign against Child Poverty?
The Social Background.
2.5 million children currently live in poverty or are threatened by it according to
the German Institute for Economic Research. The Social Report of the provincial
government put the number at 825,000 in North Rhine – Westphalia in
2007.
The situation is, however, very varied in the individual towns and districts: In
Gelsenkirchen in 2005 33.5% of all children received social support, bur in the
administrative district of Coesfeld only 7%. There can be no talk of the same living-conditions
and equal prospects – e.g. in the area of education, particularly
when the number of those affected by poverty is currently increasing: In 2000
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18.9% of the citizens belonged to the stratum in danger of poverty; in 2006 it
was already 25.4%.
In the European Union those
count as poor who have at their
disposal less than 60% of the national
average income. In Germany
the poverty-line lies at present
at €800 a month. Behind this
definition is the attempt to determine
the minimum a person
needs to participate adequately in
society.
We describe these poor people on
1 The Children`s Summit is documented under www.kindergipfel.info.
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