Children poverty in Lithuania Lithuania is a country

Children poverty in Lithuania

Lithuania is. . • . . a country in Northern Europe • . . situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea • a member of NATO, the Council of Europe, and the European Union

A bit more of Lithuania

Statistic of Lithuania • Children make about 21, 2 % citizens of all Lithuania population. • At least 20 000 children are growing up without one of the parents or even separately from both parents. • In 2005 almost 37 000 children were raised in so-called dysfunctional or at social risk families.

Statistic of Lithuania (II) • In 2009 there were registered 11121 risk families. • In such kind of families there were growing 24 222 children.

Poverty to Lithuanians • Not enough money to buy notebooks for children when they are going to school; • More than a half of salary to “give” for taxes and the other part to spend on food; • Poverty is when people don’t have water at home; • When you don’t have shower, hot water at home and etc. ; • Not enough money to pay taxes in cold season.

Poverty rates by type of household • Single person - 20. 2 %; • Single adult with children under 18 - 17. 6% ; • Couple with children under 18 - 14 % • Other households with children under 18 22. 8%; • Couple without children 12. 1 %.

Poverty rates by number of children in the household • All households with children under 18 17. 2 % • Households with one child - 11. 9 % • Households with two children - 17. 4% • Households with three and more children 36. 5 %

How often families have problems with finances? (%)

How much Lithuanians earn? • The basic salary in Lithuania is about 190 Euros. • Politicians earns about 1000 Euros and gets premium pay.

Where Lithuanians spend their salaries? • Rent for the apartment about 114 Euros; • Taxes (for water, heating, electricity etc) ~ 109 Euros; • For food ~243 Euros; • Monthly ticket for public transport ~24 EU;

How do we fight(? ? ) against child poverty? • Community’s involving; • Family’s empowerment; • Projects; • Widespread collaboration;

How do we think? • We keep in our minds that “each of us can have problems. Today all these families have social problems, so we must help them to cope with all these situations”. • Kid is a person, so we must respect him/her. • Firstly, we are child’s friends and just then social workers.

What children are thinking about poverty ? “Hmm if people don’t have water at home…” (Guste, 9 years old)

“emmm …when people don’t have where to live and begs in the streets” (Arnas, 10 years)

“Poverty is when people are searching for food in trash bin” (Neda, 7 years)

“aaaa… when people are drinking alcohol and smoking” (Naglis, 9 years)

“Poverty is… when. . People are dirty and can’t wash clothes” (Lukas, 9 years)

“Poverty is…poverty… when people don’t have money to pay for heating and it is very cold at home” (Karolina, 10 years)

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