Nicosia tackling child poverty
The percentage of minors at or below the poverty line in Cyprus stood at 18.1% in 2022, equivalent to around 31,000 youngsters according to Eurostat data, the EU Commissioner for children’s rights said last week in Nicosia.
In a joint statement by the commissioner and the National Anti-Poverty Network Cyprus (EAPN-Cyprus), the Pancyprian Coordinating Committee on Child Protection and Welfare (PCCPWC), the Cyprus Children’s Parliament and Sistema Cyprus, the group announced its decision that 2024 will be dedicated to the fight against child poverty.
The agencies decided that they will work together and carry out a series of joint actions to inform and raise public awareness, aiming at involving children themselves in the actions.
It is added that in this context, a series of roundtable discussions will be held to draw conclusions and promote positions to the relevant decision-making bodies and state agencies aimed at eliminating child poverty and the social exclusion of children, with a parallel objective being to mobilize the state apparatus, institutions, municipal authorities and communities, organizations and citizens to combat child poverty.
