City children suffering more

Campaigns against針對, 抵抗 poverty tend to focus on the rural鄉村 poor, but UNICEF has found it's children living in slums and shantytowns棚寥,簡陋的小屋群 who are becoming increasingly日益 the most disadvantaged and vulnerable脆弱.

One reason is that so many -- about 300 million round the world -- go unregistered at birth. The lack of any official identity means they then miss out on basic services like secure安全 housing, clean water, or education. And they can more easily be exploited利用 or prey獵物 to traffickers毒販.

The plight困境 of these children is often overlooked忽視 because statistics show average urban城市 families enjoy better amenities設施 than rural ones but this data masks the growing pockets of extreme poverty赤貧 in towns and cities.

Take Delhi, the capital of India's booming繁榮 economy. Figures show 90 percent of children city-wide attend primary school but in fact only half the slum children go to school.

UNICEF says policy-makers should consciously自覺 target help at these hard-to-reach children. It recommends a grass roots基層 approach with more recognition承認 of the efforts local communities make to tackle解決 poverty.

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