Children and young people have told the Commissioner that community is crucial to strong healthy societies and that ‘if you help people contribute positively – no one loses and everyone wins’. They believe the majority of young South Australians care deeply about people who are doing it tough, but they also don’t know what to do to help.
This report captures responses made by young South Australians to questions they were asked about what poverty means, and what they suggest could or should be done to address it, joining in the worldwide effort to bring about its eradication by 2030.