Over 1.3-million children across Canada are living in poverty.

That’s according to Leila Sarangi, National Director of Campaign 2000, a group that was formed decades ago with the goal of ending child poverty in Canada by the year 2000.

Sarangi says there are a lot of children living in poverty in Newfoundland and Labrador.

In this province, she says 21 per cent of kids live in poverty, which is above the national average of 17.7 per cent.

The rate when looking at children under the age of six is even higher.

She says about a quarter of all kids under six live in a family considered to be in poverty in Newfoundland and Labrador.