For some parents, this can rhyme with anxiety in the face of expenses to provide to acquire the necessary school equipment. The Restos du Coeur on Tuesday launch a call to donations, to allow school supplies to be distributed to nearly 4,000 children.
This ASBL has been organizing this initiative for five years in order to provide beneficiary families with food aid the material necessary to follow a carefree education. Last year, 3,166 children were helped, this year, nearly 4,000 are affected. An increase that “Depending on increasing precariousness and more and more needs”according to the Belgian restaurants.
“A pen today, a future tomorrow” Aims to allow children to live a worthy school year, without “exclusion, embarrassment or feeling of gap in the first days of lessons”, explains the ASBL. “The consequences can be dramatic, going as far as dropping out of school and, therefore, to a path increasingly marked by exclusion”alerts the president of the Federation of Restos du Coeur de Belgique, Frank Duval, in a press release.
It is also a question of relieving families, allowing them to concentrate their budget on fundamental costs such as “Food, invoices or care”.
According to the Statbel Statistics Office, 13.7%of children (aged 0 to 15 years old) suffer from material deprivation, a more increased proportion in Brussels (23.4%) and Wallonia (18.5%) than in Flanders (9%). In a single -parent household, this concerns 28.1% of children, underline the restaurants of the heart.
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