14,621 Portsmouth children are at or below the poverty line. Save the Children’s Christmas jumper day is on a mission to support those who are in poverty.
Thursday 7th of December was Save the Children’s Christmas jumper day.
The annual fundraising day helps support children across the world who are in need. They help a wide range of children from impoverished children in the UK to those who live in the heart of war.
The support ranges from food banks and supplying healthy food at a reduced rate to families in the UK. To supply life-saving medicine to children in war torn countries.
The donations the charity receives will help change the lives of millions. According to the Save the Children website they raised over £5 million on Christmas Jumper Day alone last year.
Findings by the End Child Poverty Coalition say that 34.6% of children lived in poverty in Portsmouth last year.
Christmas Jumper Day aims to decrease this percentage and give those on the poverty line or below a better start to life and childhood.
According to the research Portsmouth has the second highest rate of child poverty in the Hampshire
Save the Children are helping children in need by supplying more affordable food for families and they are also making early years education more accessible for children below the poverty line.
In some parts of the city as many as four in ten children are living at or below the poverty line.
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