Kiss pledges Ft 80bn for needy Hungarian children

The government will allocate Ft 80 billion for underprivileged children over the next seven years, Prime Minister's Office leader Péter Kiss said Thursday. He announced the "Let Life Be Better for Children" plan while visiting an orphanage in Fót, northeast of Budapest.

Some 500,000 children, about 20% of their generation, live in poor circumstances, Kiss said. He pledged Ft 600 million from January for free meals for starving children at primary schools and Ft 4.2 billion to supplement the family allowances of large families, also from January. The state will spend Ft 1.2 billion on providing meals to more than 100,000 children in the summer.

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