A situation ” worrying “. According to a barometer published on Wednesday August 30 by the Federation of Solidarity Actors (FAS) and Unicef France, due to a lack of places in emergency accommodation, almost 2,000 children aged 3 to 18 they are forced to sleep on the streeteven as the start of the school year approaches.
A number ” alarming according to the FAS, why up 20% for one year, this threshold never reached an increase in the number of homeless children since the implementation of this barometer five years ago, he stressedFrench media agency the French representative of Unicef, Adeline Hazan.
480 children under the age of three have already slept rough
The association then brings as an example the night between 21 and 22 August, when 3735 the family members called 115, the emergency number for the homeless. Not everyone could be accepted, due to lack of available or suitable places in the emergency room.
Among these 3735 people, 1,990 were children, including 480 under three years of age. And according to Unicef, 80% of these children said they had already slept on the street the day before the application.
According to the study, these already colossal figures are vastly underestimated : because it does not take into account the 115, children living in slums or in illegal occupations or even unaccompanied minors, specifies the FAS.
A situation of extreme precariousness that generates school difficulties, anxiety-depressive disorders, permanent stress or even a profound malaise in children, alarms UNICEF.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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