Over one hundred thousand Sardinian families in a situation of relative poverty. And if in 2019 the data was down, now there is a new increase. Small but significant: from 12.8% to 13.9% in 2020.
Numbers that go in the opposite direction to the national situation which instead indicates a general decrease in relative poverty.
This is what emerges from the latest Caritas Sardinia report on poverty and exclusion.
The data were illustrated this morning by the bishop of Iglesias Giovanni Paolo Zedda and Raffaele Callia, Caritas regional delegate.
GROWING DATA - During 2020, the Caritas listening centers in Sardinia, distributed in the 35 municipalities involved in the survey, listened - once or more times - to 10,125 people with one or more personal and family discomforts. A figure that appears to have increased significantly compared to 2019, when 6,876 people turned to Caritas. The increase between 2019 and 2020 was 3,249 units, equal to + 47.3%.
According to the report, Sardinia is also among the Italian regions with unprecedented rates of poverty much higher than the national average: the people who turned to the listening centers for the first time in 2020 cover 51.5% of the total. . And the figure does not concern foreigners: the large majority (71.5%) are Italian citizens.
WHO ASKS FOR HELP - Among the effects produced by the pandemic there is also in Sardinia, in accordance with the national data, an increased exposure to fragility by women, 51.1% of the total. One in two people is between 40 and 50 years old, and it is mainly married people who ask for help. The share of people in difficulty with a low-medium educational qualification remains high.
Among the causes of the discomfort, lack of work or precarious work.
NEEDS - Requests mostly concern material goods or services (81.9%): we are looking for food, clothing, products for babies, medical supplies, transport tickets, meal vouchers, personal hygiene products, equipment for the House.
Compared to the previous report, the requests for economic subsidies also increased, going from 10.2% in 2019 to 12.0% in 2020. Against the 41,132 registrations of requests for aid, in 2020 the operators of the Centers of listening revealed 56,055 intervention recordings.
In 2020, the most frequent micro-item associated with the supply of material goods and services is not the "canteen service" but rather the "distribution of food packages", which alone covers 40.4% of all interventions provided during the 'year.
(Unioneonline / vl)
