The Fundació Pere Tarrés has presented its annual study on the living conditions of families benefiting from 2025 summer scholarships and draws a worsening of the economic situation of the households served. The average annual income per person stands at 6,152 euros, one thousand euros less than the previous year.
The report also states that the average income of the families analyzed is 13,293 euros annually, which represents a decrease of 2,300 euros compared to the previous year. The entity warns that a good part of these households faces a context of sustained vulnerability, just before a period of the year in which access to educational and leisure activities often depends on external aid.
More households under the poverty threshold
Eight out of ten scholarship-holding families are below the poverty line. Added to this is that six out of ten are in a situation of severe poverty, with incomes below 60% of the average of Catalan households.
"Households are suffering very complex and vulnerable situations" David Lozano, studies project coordinator of the Fundació Pere Tarrés
The X-ray that the foundation makes points to a greater economic fragility among the families that request these aids. The decrease in income, both per person and per family unit, consolidates a trend that directly impacts the capacity to assume the cost of activities during the summer.
More than seven thousand scholarship children
Last year Fundació Pere Tarrés granted scholarships to 7,146 children, of whom 2,076 were in the city of Barcelona. The figure gives an idea of the volume of minors who depend on these scholarships to participate in summer camps and other summer activities.
"We are talking about children who, if we don't give them scholarships in summer, would spend the day at home. This makes them have relational and emotional benefits by spending time with the rest of their peers" David Lozano, studies project coordinator of the Fundació Pere Tarrés
The entity highlights that these aids not only cover an economic need. They also allow many minors to maintain spaces for coexistence, socialization, and accompaniment during the vacation months, in a context in which household precariousness continues to increase.