PM: 3 million children receive social care and cash assistance to complete their education

Baghdad - INA

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani confirmed today, Saturday, that 3 million children are currently receiving social care and are provided with various food baskets and additional cash assistance to complete their educational journey, while he directed the study of proposals for children's literature projects to implement them.

The Prime Minister's Media Office said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani received a group of writers, artists and playwrights concerned with children's literature, on the occasion of Iraqi Children's Day."

The Prime Minister stressed, according to the statement, that “the government believes that building the human being is the most important and safest, and is at the top of the list of priorities, and this is what the Council of Ministers and the Ministerial Council for Development are working on,” stressing “the necessity of instilling the values ​​of integrity and honesty in kindergartens, and our children who have gone through complex stages of wars, we remember with them what has been happening to the children of Gaza over months.”

He explained that "the state's plans to provide an educational environment were affected by the circumstances that the Iraqi child went through," stressing that "3 million children today receive social care and are provided with various food baskets and additional cash assistance to complete their educational journey. The government is also working to spare our children from multidimensional poverty, which affects education, health, housing and services."

Al-Sudani appreciated the "contributions of writers, artists, poets and painters", stressing the "importance of television programmes, children's theatre and writing for children, and working to revive these initiatives and programmes; for their contribution to refining the child's culture and for him to be productive in his future society."

According to the statement, the Prime Minister "listened to several proposals related to culture, literature, music, arts, children's theatre and children's cinema, and directed the preparation of a workshop under the auspices of the Minister of Culture and the Prime Minister's Advisor for Cultural Affairs, which will be concerned with studying all the proposed proposals, most of which are feasible projects."