Children who only eat pasta and bread

Charles Miceli has hands-on experience of children who only eat pasta and bread at home because their parents cannot afford otherwise. He regularly meets parents who skip paying the electricity bill to buy food for their children. They are people who queue for EU food handouts outside parish offices. So when the numbers mill at the National Statistics Office churns out the news that almost 64,000 people are at risk of poverty, Mr Miceli is not impressed. “Poverty is something I feel every day,” said the Caritas worker and founder of a Facebook awareness campaign called Alliance Against Poverty. 15.4 percentage of people at risk of poverty, according to the NSO He insisted the poor tried to hide their condition and it was common for parents to send their children to school in a good state at the cost of sacrificing everything else. “Some will even give their children fruit to take to school even though all they can afford to eat at home is a plain plate of pasta every day,” he said. The NSO recorded a marginal increase in the number of people at risk of poverty last year when compared with the previous one. There were 15.4 per cent of people at risk of poverty,...