Children in needy families 16:39 November 29th
The government decided on a new charter to tackle uninterrupted support as a measure against child poverty. In private NPOs, the “Children's home meal” initiative is spreading throughout the country to deliver food free of charge to children in families such as single parents who are economically difficult.
“Children's home meals”
Among these, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo has been conducting “home meals for children” for the first time in the country for two years with NPOs and companies using hometown tax payment.
In this initiative, rice and retort foods are delivered once every two months to families receiving childcare allowances and school support.
On the 29th, a logistics company in a transportation company in Koto Ward, Tokyo, which participated in the initiative, worked to prepare food to be delivered next month.
Twenty-seven items such as rice, retort food, and sweets donated by companies that agreed to the initiative were put in Christmas-patterned bags and packed into containers.
NPO Shuri Masuda, who runs the “Children's Home Food”, said, “We are delighted. In homes where we cannot buy sweets, we were able to call home friends because we had home-made sweets. I also heard the voice.You can talk about troubles etc. by actually delivering it and talking about "How are you recently?"
On the other hand, Mr. Masuda also felt the difficulty of support. “From the outside, living in a clean house or cutting my food expenses and sending children to cram schools and lessons makes it difficult to see poverty. Because parents are desperately hiding them so that their parents can't show them, they may not be able to help. "
SNS also grasps the situation of the home
For this reason, in Bunkyo City's “Children's Home Eating”, the target households can easily apply through SNS.
In addition, it is possible to grasp the current state of the family by being able to communicate easily with SNS, and it can also lead to necessary support.
“Children's home-cooking” activities have recently been carried out in Saga Prefecture and Echizen City, Niigata Prefecture, and are spreading throughout the country.
Thanks
NPOs that operate “children's home meals” in Bunkyo Ward receive various voices from users via SNS.
The user who received the food for the first time said, “I was surprised that there was so much, so much. I was able to afford all the expiry dates I was concerned about, and it was more than I imagined that the variety was rich. I talked, "This is what I received at a child's home meal," and I was given more than usual feelings about "I'll get." I was able to have a happy and enjoyable time ”message.
In addition to food, concerts, sports watching, hot spring facility admission tickets, etc. are also distributed by lottery, and the person who received it says, “We usually plan and invite events that are difficult to experience. I'm very grateful that it's very fortunate to have an extraordinary moment while I'm raising my child alone and being killed in my daily life. I thought, thank you very much. "