Bleak Christmas for 11.5-M poor children

January 3, 2008  --  Got something to say?
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The government says some 11.5 million of the almost 33 million Filipino children live below the poverty line and are considered the poorest of the poor. Most likely, 6 million of the 11.5 million poor children are having a bleak and bitter Christmas season. They dont have the bright Christmas enjoyed by the children of well-off and rich families. Statistics say about 1.5 million of the poor are considered street children who go out and beg or sell flowers, cigarets, foodstuffs and sometimes themselves.

The 2007 data published by the National Statistical Coordination Board showed that Filipino children still account for the largest number of the poor population. Around 20 percent have no access to safe drinking water, almost a third live in homes that have no electricity, and around 40 percent of Filipino households with children aged 13 to 16, are not able to send them to school.


Posted by News Team | Filed Under Philippine News 

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