About 2.1 million children live in households where there is not enough food. Just over a third of these children live in KwaZulu-Natal and another 20% live in Gauteng.
This is among the findings in a report titled “The South African Child Gauge 2019” released earlier. This comprehensive study of the circumstances in which South African children live was conducted by the Children’s Institute of the University of Cape Town, together with Unicef South Africa, the Center for Excellence in Human Development at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Tutu Foundation and Standard Bank. Tutuwa Community Foundation.
The situation has improved since 2002 when 30% of children were starving.
The breadline: Individuals who have to survive on less than R1 183 per month.
“The expansion of child welfare grants to 12 million children in 2018 made the biggest contribution to this decline,” the report states.
School nutrition programs, which fed 9 million pupils in
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