UNICEF: Bulgaria Has Highest Child Poverty Rate in Europe

Bulgaria has the highest child poverty rate in Europe, according to Tanya Radocaj, UNICEF Representative for Bulgaria.

Speaking Wednesday in Veliko Tarnovo at a forum devoted to the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, she said that the biggest challenge for Bulgaria was child poverty.

“We use official statistics and we know that fifty percent or more of the children in Bulgaria live in poverty or at risk of poverty and these are the highest rates in Europe,” Radocaj stated, adding that Bulgaria’s performance in the sphere was similar to that of Romania.

Asked what the government and municipalities could do to overcome poverty, she emphasized that there was no easy solution.

“If there was an easy solution, all European countries would have found it and adopted it. However, if there is one word which can answer your question, it is education,” the UNICEF Representative for Bulgaria said, as cited by the Bulgarian National Radio.

Radocaj attended the opening of an exhibition devoted to children’s rights.

The exhibition will be shown in ten other Bulgarian cities.

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