"The president, who didn't eat at 5 yesterday, forgets that one million children go hungry every day in Spain."

"It's five in the afternoon and there's unbearable hunger." This is the desperate cry of a million children suffering from chronic hunger in our country. "The message from the Prime Minister yesterday, when he said in his appearance 'it's five and I still haven't eaten,' is very frivolous, serious, and unfortunate," Conrado Giménez, president of the Madrina Foundation , angrily told this newspaper. "Pedro Sánchez believes that Spain is going 'like a rocket,' but nothing could be further from the truth; we are in a third-world country as long as child poverty exists."

She asserts that reports from UNICEF, Save the Children, and Cáritas... claim that one in four families goes hungry in Spain. " This can't be. We serve 400 families a day to provide for them. And because we don't have a larger budget to help more. These are families who have to choose between paying their rent or feeding their children. For them, 5 p.m. is often the time when their stomachs have been empty for hours, and the day ends with no certainty of a decent meal. It's a reality that exists, but one that politicians and society in general lack awareness about because it isn't given visibility."

She told ABC that they've also detected that "because pregnant women don't eat well, barely consuming any protein, their babies are increasingly less well-nourished by breastfeeding. No one reports this. In the end, the tendency is to use artificial feeding. Maternal and child poverty is very worrying."

This harsh reality turns Spain into "a country where the only ones who can move around easily are politicians on the falcon, while the most vulnerable families, those million malnourished children, lack even basic transportation to access the few remaining food resources . This situation raises Spain's child poverty rate to the highest in Europe, a shame we cannot afford to ignore."

But, in his opinion, aid is not being provided either. "What's more, it's being cut. The situation is even more dire given the drastic budget cuts of the Ministry of Agriculture, which has gone from allocating €1.6 billion annually to feeding the most vulnerable to a paltry € 90 million . This isn't support; it's a handout that condemns those most in need to starve."