An egg divided by four students from the Escola Municipal de Educação Infantil Ipiranga, in Belo Horizonte, and stamps on the children’s hands to prevent them from trying to repeat lunch, in a school in the Federal District, near the Palácio do Planalto, are, increasingly, the scene of lunchtime in public schools in Brazil.
As the amount allocated to school meals has not grown since the start of the Bolsonaro government -which, in fact, has already vetoed a possible increase in the 2023 budget-, rationing, as in war scenarios, and hunger have become part of the daily life of Brazilian students, he tells the newspaper Estadão.
In total, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, 33 million Brazilians will go hungry in 2022, 20 million more than in 2020.
In addition, 65 million are food insecure: that is, they are not sure, when they wake up, that they will eat three meals a day.
In 2014, sign up, Brazil celebrated the release of the UN Hunger Map.
At the same time, Brazil remains at the head of the countries with the highest inflation among the world’s largest economies and if it is true that the unemployment rate has recently dropped to a single digit, 9.3%, more than 40% of workers of the country are in the informal sector.
Second most unequal country of the G20, only ahead of South Africa, in Brazil 1% of the population has 40% of the national income and if we raise the measure to 10% of the population, this group has more than 65% of the national income.
For these reasons, if systemic corruption was the motto of the 2018 electoral campaign, which elected Jair Bolsonaro, a deputy supposedly outside the system, the 2022 campaign focuses on the economy, that is, on the hunger that, among many others, children suffer. of public schools pass every day.
Source: TSF
