200,000 kids under 5 in child food poverty in Italy in 2023

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 14 - A reported 200,0000 children under the age of five in Italy lived in child food poverty last year with their families unable to guarantee at least one meal with proteins every other day, Save the Children said in the 2023 Atlas of Childhood (at risk) published on Thursday.
    This group represented 8. 5% of the child population and over half of them lived in southern Italy and on the islands, where the percentage rose to 12.9% against the 6.7% reported in the Centre and 6.1% in the North.
    Nearly one in 10 children in the same age group, or 9.7%, experienced energy poverty, living in inadequately heated housing in the winter, according to the 15th edition of the Atlas of Childhood which was devoted to the early years. (ANSA).