Many people in the world suffer from malnutrition due to food shortage. For this reason, countries are constantly looking for ways to supply this need for food with new forms of food aid. The Government of Spain was not going to be less. Therefore, they will be allocated more than 97 million euros for contracting food to help disadvantaged people. We tell you!
Food aid is always a necessity
The proposal comes from Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and has been authorized by the Council of Ministers. The Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund will contract a supply of food for the «Program of food aid to the most disadvantaged 2023″. The food purchased for this cause will be 100% financed by the European Union and will benefit more than a million people.
Community regulations provide that the support of the economic fund for the most disadvantaged people will increase in 2023 with the program REACT EU (Aid to the Recovery for the Cohesion and the Territories of Europe). This fund has been conceived with the idea of favoring the repair of the crisis that Covid-19 has left, both economic and social.
The main foods that will be purchased with this amount are white rice, chickpeas, canned tuna, canned meat, pasta, cookies, canned vegetables, children's cocoa and olive oil. In this way, searching reach the objective to cover the shopping basket of the beneficiary families.
The problem in Spain
La malnutrition in childhood is one of the main threats to children's development. Despite popular belief, it is not a problem that is foreign to first world countries. In fact, it is quite linked to the situation socioeconomic what happens to the countries. That is why there are often high percentages of this condition in countries that do not have problems in general. This is the case of Spain. In 2018, the effects of the economical crisis that have devastated the country.
Nutrition is an essential process for the development of the human being, and childhood is a key time for our formation. There are several problems that can pose a health risk in any of its forms. The first of these is undoubtedly the malnutrition. For practical purposes, it is a physical manifestation of hunger. Another of these conditions is, although it sounds nonsense, the supercharging. This is another of the problems that is most linked to food. This can be seen with epidemics of obesity that occur in first world countries.
The data it returned UNICEF about the situation in Spain in 2018 were not at all encouraging. Our country had one of the highest child poverty rates in the entire European Union. In addition, we stand as the third country in relative poverty and anchored poverty, only behind Greece and Romania. That is why these support systems will always be welcome.
Food aid around the world
All the consecuencias of a lack of nutrients in the earliest ages are many. To begin with, the delay in crecimiento and the reduction of the cognitive capacity can be determining if it is not intervened quickly. Another condition is the high propensity to enfermedades and infections arising from lack of Vitamins.
The risk of blindness is also present, along with damage to the skin, stomach and respiratory system. To this we add the problems that arise from the lack of metabolic minerals in the body, such as anemia. Alterations in the main functions of the organs responsible for filtering food can also lead to poisoning. and in the case of girls, it could also lead to future problems in maintaining a pregnancy.
With all this in mind, the need for this type of food aid that leads to the correct development of minors and that, in turn, solve the problems that a more unfortunate family may have.
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