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The coordinator of IU-Greens in Cieza, Francisco Saorín, has called on the local mayor, Antonio Tamayo, opening a school canteen with a zero cost to families whose income does not exceed the minimum wage, so that any local child goes hungry.
Saorín has publicly asked the local government to implement a program to ensure that students in need are fed "always in a context of extracurricular activities or town camps to ensure an absence of stigma."
Risk of poverty or social exclusion
The coordinator ciezanos ecosocialistas noted in a press release that the economic crisis, combined with the policies of "austericidio" People's Party in the last two years has led to a number of families with dependent children and many households with more than one adult and dependent children are at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
In addition, he stressed that this situation is exacerbated by the drastic reduction in school meals, and recalled that the Community of Murcia has the competence and responsibility of social policies in the fight against hunger and poverty and has to therefore be the guarantor of the right to food in all its territory.
"It is unacceptable for a society that in the XXI century, is less than, finished the school year, see disappear the only sufficient nutritionally adequate food and that was receiving in school canteens. Starvation in less watchful against ethics, solidarity and human rights and to look for alternatives, "he said.
Source: IU-verdes Cieza
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