In Milan there are more and more couples with children who are in poverty: they are unable to buy school books, enroll their children in sports activities or even pay medical expenses.
“There is extreme poverty that is not on the streets, but which instead enters homes, illegal or otherwise, and which creeps into work, precarious work, casual work, underpaid work.“: this is what the president of Progetto Arca, Alberto Sinigallia, said in relation to the condition of the population living in Milan. The Foundation also organised, for thirty years of activity, a flash mob in front of Palazzo Marino with two hundred people lying down and wrapped in blankets.
“We are talking about a misery that it increasingly concerns families with minorsconditions access to education and social relationships and mortgages our future“, the newspaper reported The Corriere della Sera.
The Foundation commissioned Bva Doxa to carry out a study on five cities, including Milan. In the Milanese capital it was considered a sample of 250 people who shop in the foundation’s solidarity markets. 60 percent of them live with minor children.
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54 percent say that family friends have disappeared34 percent avoid meeting opportunities”out of embarrassment at appearing fragile“. 37 percent also fail to pay for after-school care or to prevent their children from failing38 percent cannot enroll them in sports activities and 20 percent to buy textbooks.
A truly terrible condition for parents and children. Unfortunately you also give up medical expenses, haircuts and obviously even going on holiday. Despite the difficulties, 41 percent of Milanese respondents “he hopes to find serenity again soon.”
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