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Adoración Peñas, edil of the formation, realizes this affirmation after knowing that Lorca will be the only great city of the Region that still does not count on school canteens in summer

Adoración Peñas, Councilor of United Green Left in the town hall of Lorca, has lamented another year the lack of sensitivity of the PP government team before one of the most heartbreaking effects of the economic crisis, child poverty, leaving the infants Lorca without resources without the possibility of attending school canteens during the summer period.

According to data published yesterday in the Region of Murcia four out of ten children live at risk of poverty, being the fifth community with the highest percentage (39.3%), so this year several municipalities in the Region have decided to increase In a third the places in school canteens during the summer, so that the children are guaranteed a complete meal a day.

Despite this increase, not even half of the children who are entitled to a scholarship in a school canteen during the course are covered.

While the municipality of Murcia will have 26 summer schools for 814 minors, Cartagena with 11 schools for 850 children and Molina de Segura with 2 with capacity for 100 places, Lorca will be the only large municipality in the Region in not offering any school of This type that ensures the feeding of children without resources, which according to Peñas, "is a clear example of the indifference that the government team has with this problem, and that year after year, from the opposition parties It is asked to carry out summer schools in Lorca that partially offset this fair and necessary demand, avoiding their responsibility leaving it in the hands of the NGOs of Lorca "..

From the political formation they do not understand that Lorca is detached from the initiative of other municipalities that have acted on the matter and they urge the mayor to take measures, beyond the purely assistencialistas that have been taken until now.

Adoración Peñas has lamented the lack of sensitivity of the government team in relation to the care of the most vulnerable children and has stated that this is not an occurrence of the opposition, but a request that has made the Ombudsman, the Which has been answered in many of the municipalities in Murcia.

Since IU-Greens have been dismayed by the situation of Lorca that is, once again, at the expense of the collaboration of NGOs and state that Lorca deserves something more than what is being offered, The third municipality of the region and is classified according to recent studies, as the third municipality of more than 50,000 poorest people in Spain, in a context in which 51.4% of Murcia children live at risk of poverty or social exclusion.

The mayor does not understand the fear of this government team to launch to create initiatives of this type, leaving as always the responsibility to NGOs that are already suffocated by the cuts and has said not knowing if to qualify this attitude as Fear or lack of capacity, which is a tremendous irresponsibility, since municipalities much smaller and with fewer resources have already implemented this type of measures, also authorized by the Ministry.

Similarly, Peñas recalled that in September 2015, his political training presented a motion to the plenary for the maintenance of school canteens during holiday periods in order to satisfy the right to food of children in vulnerable situation.

This motion was presented in September to be able to elaborate a project well in advance and to start on the Christmas holidays, but the PP showed its refusal and insensitivity to a matter of transcendental importance ..

Source: IU-verdes Lorca