Study: About half of country children live in families that barely have money for day by day living

  About half (48%) of children in the rural area (864,000) live in families where there is not enough money from one month to another for basic things in Romania in 2024, according to an ample study about the situation of children in the rural area, released on Tuesday by World Vision Romania.   According to the mentioned source, 38% of rural families had to give up buying clothes and footwear for their children.   Over 42% of households with children in the rural area do not have salary incomes and depend on social aid, pensions or irregular income sources. That happens when the standard monthly cost for a child (besides care, education and health expenses) , calculated at the level of the above study is 595 lei per month, the authors of the study show.   Unfortunately, most parents face difficulties in covering basic family needs: 38% of households with children in the rural area (about 310,00 households where 692,000 children are living) bought food on credit in the past year, 58% of households do not buy cosmetic products for children and 29% of children do not use hygiene products, the source mentions.   That is why many adults are compelled to work abroad: 19% of children in the rural area (about 348,00 children) have an adult in their household working abroad, showed World Vision Romania.   At the same time, the financial difficulties of the familiy are seen in the children's education.     For instance, 3 out of 10 parents in poor communities did not send their children to kindergarten in the last year because they did not have money for the children's clothes. About two thirds of school age children in the rural area (62%) are involved in profot making activities, while 4 out of 10 middle school children (41%) do not want to attend high school, but want to get jobs, to work in the family or attend training courses, said the authors of the study.   World Vision Romania is an organization carrying out education programs, emergency humanitarian intervention, development and advocacy , placing children welfare in the center of its activity. The organization focuses on working with children, families and communities to fight poverty and injustice.   World Vision Romania is part of World Vision International, present in 100 countries worldwide. In 33 years of presence in Romania it helped hundreds of thousand children and adults in 900 communities from 41 counties.