Child Poverty In London Essay

London, England experienced an all-time high forty-one percent child poverty rate in the 1990’s. Since then, its child poverty rate has reduced only down to thirty-seven percent. Today, its thirty-seven percent child poverty rate is the highest rate of child poverty among any English region, and is the same as Scotland and Wales put together. London’s high child poverty rate is due to its high cost of living. This creates something of a hardship for those children in poverty. They cannot afford to participate in leisure activities. There is a lack of opportunity and engagement for these children in poverty.

There are 529,000 children who make up London’s thirty-seven percent child poverty today. “The London Child Poverty Commission’s report of 2008 concluded that 'The underlying causes of this entrenched child poverty are surprisingly simple – the employment …show more content…
Our goal with this program is to offer these children an opportunity to be engaged with their peers, playing sport, and learning from our staff and from each other. We want to solve London’s inequality problem from a social standpoint, giving the children in poverty the same opportunity of playing a sport that the children of wealth receive. Most importantly, we want to offer these children the opportunity of success, showing them that a better tomorrow comes from hard work today. Our program can solve the lack of football participation in the UK by engaging kids in a sport that they would not have otherwise had the opportunity to. Soccer is, and perhaps, will always be the most popular sport in London. However, London’s children in poverty, which make up 1 in 4 children, do not get the opportunity to play soccer or any sport for that matter. If they had the opportunity to participate in a sport development program from NFL International, then one day football could become one of the largest leading sports in the