Poverty In Denmark

First I would like to apologize for the late post this week. I have had some family issues that have kept met away from my computer and I was unable to check my email for the correspondence with my contact in Denmark. I did not get her email until this evening when I came home.The following is Annegrethe response to my questions, I hope you enjoy as I have learning about a new country's policies.

"I live in a country that takes very good care of all people and poverty can be hard to find. Here in Denmark the state will give you Money if you Loose your job or cant find any.....You will reseve Money as long as you do what they ask of you....that Means you sometimes have to take a not so good job, but if you dont you will not get payd.

 

Hospitals and doctors are free because we pay very high taxes but that Means everybody can get help.

When you are a student here in denmark you get Money from the state while you study, it is not much but enough to get by you can also get at very cheap studentloan. 

 

In my Work with children ofcourse some of the parents have more Money than others and you can see that in the clothes the children were. Sometimes children are mean and tease if you dont weare the rigth clothes, but that happens more often in school and not in the kindergarden where i Work.

We do have people WHO live in the streets, but they are often alcoholics or drug addicts

I personally pay to a child in Benin every month so he can go to school and his Family can get help to, i feel it is important to give when i have more eventhoug i dont get very much Money as a single mom, though the state helps me pay for my childs place in kindergarten"