No child should experience poverty

Caritas Europa contributed to the EU Alliance for Investing in Children recommendations in a joint statement for the 2023 Porto Social Forum.

As child poverty hits more than 200,000 children in the EU (according to Eurostat), eradicating it is an indispensable stepping stone in constructing a just and equal social Europe for current and future generations.

By adopting the European Child Guarantee, the EU has demonstrated its political commitment to break the cycle of poverty and disadvantage across generations. To secure its success, the priority now is to turn this commitment into tangible measures to eradicate child poverty.