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Citizens Councilman Antonio Meca has asked the mayor to carry out the necessary actions for the uninterrupted opening of at least one school canteen in the malls for the holiday period.
In the school year ending some 500 children now requested aid room, amply justifying found in a family grave economic situation.
In the words of Antonio Meca still insensitivity regional government limited that only 150 of them obtain this food scholarship.
Clearly the social reality of Lorca requires the attention of a large number of children with a risk of poor nutrition, and serve them is the obligation of the local administration.
The municipal Citizens Group proposes that remain open one of the school canteens in the area of ​​Las Alamedas - San Jose, San Fernando and Jose Robles.
Recall that in the last regular full of 30 May 2016 on the motion of C's improving the system gives was accepted unanimously support the school canteen.
According to statistics one out of every 3 children in Spain live at risk of poverty or social exclusion and a poor diet can have negative consequences on their development.
UNICEF collects the figure of 27.5% of children at risk of poverty in Spain and in the Murcia region that rate is the highest in the country with 37.2%.
The FAPA constantly expresses his struggle to make school canteens are open 365 days a year.
Mecca clarifies that own ombudsman Doña Soledad Becerril has urged municipalities with large populations to ensure food of children of vulnerable families, especially in the summer holidays.
According Citizens all social institutions advise the opening of school canteens every day.
Antonio Meca proposed as a pilot, one of the 17 school lunchrooms in the municipality remain open on the holiday period and thus meet the real demand for this service is in the town of Lorca.
Source: Ciudadanos Lorca
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