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Poverty: in Tuscany over 121 thousand have ended up below the threshold

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At the center of the Oxfam-Rai debate on Covid economic effects

(ANSA) – FLORENCE, 16 JUN – Over 121 thousand people in 2020 in Tuscany are below the poverty line, with a school dropout rate that has affected over one in 10 students.

These are the data at the center of the online event ‘I care, it’s important to me’, organized in Florence, at the Community center ‘Metropolis’ del Le Piagge, by Oxfam Italia and Rai per il Sociale and dedicated to educational poverty, to the increase of inequalities and possible solutions, after more than a year of pandemic. With the Covid emergency between 7% and 8% of children live in absolute or relative poverty. On the other hand, Oxfam has supported almost 5,000 people at risk of exclusion since the beginning of the emergency.

“The pandemic has affected everyone but in an unequal way – said Roberto Barbieri, general manager of Oxfam Italy – Those who were already in difficulty suffered the worst consequences, remaining behind, without the means to react to such a serious shock”. “The ‘I Care’ project – said Giovanni Parapini, director of Rai for Social Affairs – is a concrete testimony of how Rai wants to emphasize, in multi-platform mode, all those initiatives that focus on a real fight against inequalities based on on more facts and fewer words, on more concreteness and less appearance “.

The regional councilor for education Alessandra Nardini underlined that “the Region made a courageous choice in January by choosing to reopen the schools, so that the children would not lag behind, at the same time investing important resources to give the children the tools to follow. distance lessons “. The councilor for welfare of the Municipality of Florence Sara Funaro highlighted that “the pandemic has brought out in a very violent way what is the fragility of our community” and underlined among the problems that “of school dropout, duplicated in the Municipality of Florence in the year of the pandemic “, but also” the failures at school by children from foreign cultural backgrounds and the emotional and psychological distress of our children “. (HANDLE).

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