Governor Paulo Dantas celebrated the excellent results that the state achieved in combating hunger and lifting families out of extreme poverty. According to research by the Institute of Social and Economic Justice (IJSN) based on IBGE data, Alagoas was the state that most reduced extreme poverty in 2023, a variation of more than 33% compared to the previous year.
Which means that more than 100 thousand people from Alagoas stopped living below the extreme poverty line last year. According to the data released, the extreme poverty rate in 2022 was 13.2%, and rose to 8.8% in 2023 in Alagoas – a drop of 4.3 percentage points.
Furthermore, the state also stood out as the fourth state with the highest overall reduction in poverty, marking an 8% drop in the rate. This progress is not isolated, as Brazil as a whole also saw a significant drop in the extreme poverty rate, from 5.9% to 4.4%.
In total, around 3.1 million Brazilians overcame extreme poverty last year. For Governor Paulo Dantas, these results are the result of substantial investments in public policies aimed at generating income and economic development.
“In 2023 alone, the state government invested more than R$600 million in actions aimed at combating poverty, with various programs. We have just created the Alagoas Without Hunger State Council, whose main objective is to align and expand the actions of the Alagoas Without Hunger Program, which has generated great results and donations of tons of food collected through donations and partnerships”, he stated.
Paulo Dantas also recognized that there is still a lot to be done, but that these results encourage the Government of Alagoas to increasingly implement public policies to combat hunger.
“We have done a lot, but there is still a lot to be done. We have a rate of 8.8% that needs to be reduced more and more. Allied with the Federal Government’s public policies, we will reduce it even further and these results show that we are on the right path”, he celebrated.
Alagoas D-Day without hunger and upcoming actions
Alagoas Without Hunger D-Day will be held next Sunday (28), in the municipality of Olho D’Água Grande, where, among other actions, the Government of Alagoas should announce Creche Cria, Praça Cria, Nutricional Complex, Urban Gardens within of a state school and the actions of each department aimed at serving the public in vulnerable situations.
Among the next activities to be carried out by the program are: creation of Urban Gardens; openings of Artisanal Bakeries; expansion of Popular Restaurants; Nutritional Complexes; in addition to the inclusion of the Food Card and the creation of Food Factories.
/Alagoas Agency
