Hunger and Food Insecurity: 12.0%
Percentage of households who were food insecure on average from 2014 to 2016, meaning that at some point during the year, they experienced difficulty providing enough food due to a lack of money or resources.
Affordable Housing: 35.0 units
Number of apartments or other units that were affordable and available for every 100 renter households with very low incomes in 2015. Very low-income households are those with incomes at or below 50 percent of the area median income.
Assets and Savings: 6.6%
Percentage of households that used high-cost, high-risk forms of credit to make ends meet during 2015. This includes payday loans, automobile title loans, refund anticipation loans, and pawning.
Unemployment Insurance: 10.0%
Percentage of unemployed workers who received unemployment insurance in 2016
Health insurance coverage: 24.4%
Percentage of people under age 65 and below138 percent of the poverty line who did not have health insurance at any time in 2016.
In view of all these derivatives suffered by our brothers and sisters in South Florida, Save God’s Children greatly affected and decided to intervene as quickly as possible to help the poorest.
This heavy responsibility that Save God’s Children has undertaken today has sent a signal of solidarity to all, in order to provide financial and other support to our organization to improve and even heckle the situation.