Umuda Yolculuk

Reduce child poverty rate, education justice increase the German children’s Fund on the world day of social justice the Federal Government and the State governments urged, to take effective measures to reduce the rate of child poverty and to improve the education justice in Germany on the way. Social security for children and education justice should be a matter of course in one of the world’s richest industrial Nations. The reality is however different for many years. In Germany, every fifth child poverty is affected, and often the purse of the parents decides the educational opportunities of children”, explains Holger Hofmann, Federal Manager of the Deutsches kinderhilfswerk. Not low costs for the eradication of child poverty must not lead to a blocking.

Nothing can be more important than to invest in the future of our country. It’s above all on the political will of Governments and parliaments to overcome child poverty in Germany and all children and young people to provide a fairer chance growing up. Also a permeable top school system, a long mutual learning, individual programmes for disadvantaged students, the nationwide expansion of the all-day school and Lernmittelfreiheit include”so Hanson continues. Therefore, the German children’s charity calls on the Federal Government to finally bring a national programme to combat child poverty on the way. The Federal Government should present a comprehensive package of measures with specific targets together with State and local authorities with the child poverty can be addressed effectively. It must then go both, therefore, to establish material distributive justice as also improved educational opportunities for disadvantaged children and to create young people. This includes the timely expansion of childcare facilities for children with a concurrent quality drive for better early childhood education. Further information and contact: Uwe Kamp, spokesman for phone: 030-308693-11 Cell: 0160-6373155 fax: 030-2795634 E-mail: Internet: and dkhw.de which became the Deutsche Kinderhilfswerk children e.V., stakeholders for a child-friendly Germany, founded in 1972 in Munich. The non-profit association committed as initiator and promoter for more than 40 years for children’s rights, participation and the overcoming of child poverty in Germany.