As the prices of daily necessities such as food continue to rise, support groups surveyed families in financial distress, and the percentages who answered that their lives became "very difficult" or "difficult" due to soaring prices combined. It turned out that it reached 85%.
From the 10th to the 14th of this month, the NPO "Kids Door", which works to support children, conducted a questionnaire survey of families with children up to high school students who are in financial distress, and received responses from 1386 people.
When asked about the impact of rising prices on their lives,
48% said they were "very painful
" and 37% said they were "suffering", and a
total of 85% of households said that their lives became difficult. I answered.
In addition, 15% of the respondents said that they were "a little bit painful", indicating that soaring prices have a great impact on low-income households.
In addition, when asked about the dietary situation of children in multiple answers,
64% answered that they had an imbalance in nutrition,
60% answered that they had reduced the amount of food,
and 37% answered that they could not buy meat or fish. was.
For this reason, support groups are planning to provide urgent food support to economically deprived families with children from next month, and from this month 20th, they will raise funds for support through crowdfunding. increase.
Yumiko Watanabe, the chairman of "Kids Door", said, "The influence of the new corona has been prolonged and various living costs have risen where I was living in a state of last minute, so I could not add side dishes when eating, so I had dinner. Some families are forced into a situation where they have to just eat eggs and rice. I feel that the impact of high prices is quite serious. "