Colombia’s child welfare workers strike over starving children
Source: Colombia Reports
Colombia’s child welfare workers strike over starving children
Posted by Stephen Gill on Apr 5, 2016
Approximately 7,000 “community mothers” began an indefinite strike on Monday, amid ongoing concerns over the deteriorating humanitarian situation of the poorest of Colombia’s children.
The women aim to achieve wide-ranging reforms in working conditions and an increase in resources for the provision of child welfare in Colombia from family welfare agency ICBF, whom unions describe as being under a “makeshift administration.”
Due to a drop in oil prices, Colombia’s national government has been forced to implement “intelligent austerity measures” that are also affecting child welfare programs in place for the most needy.
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Additionally, “thousands of children have not been catered for this year because there is still no infrastructure to serve them. This has resulted in the death of children from malnutrition or conditions of neglect,” a union representative told press.
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