The SPÖ wants to declare war on child poverty in Austria with a package of measures. Party leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner spoke out in a demand paper on Sunday for the creation of basic child security, a legal entitlement to an education at any age and a daily healthy, warm meal for every child. The federal government has written the fight once morest child poverty into its program, but has done nothing, she criticized.
“Health and social disadvantages that children suffer can no longer be made up for the rest of their lives,” emphasized Rendi-Wagner: “It is the responsibility of all of us to ensure that children do not have to start their lives with such a handicap. ” Poverty is unfair, it makes you ill, robs children of the chance of a good education, a long life and pride and contentment.