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8000 Euros a month for fourteen children. So about $6 per child per meal plus clothes plus warmth plus etc.

8000 might feed 14 kids if properly used. But there isn't going to be much left for clothing and housing.

Nope. The prices for food in Greece are identical to (and sometimes lower) than those in Bulgaria. I have friends and colleagues who go to rent villas in Greece and shop in their supermarkets and cook/barbeque for themselves. Feeding one person is more expensive than two people, believe it or not, since cooking for one rarley makes sense.

So increasing the members in a family does not exponentially increase the cost for food. Sure it goes up, but it diminishes per person, since cooking large quantities of food is actually more cost effective. Making a huge bowl of soup or a cooked meal can feed 14 people just fine at a relatively low cost. 8000 euro is PLENTY. Sure they won't be the most well-dressed, but they will be warm and fed if old man Ahmet didn't drink hard liquor and smoke 2 packs of cigarettes costing 5 euro each per day.

8000 euro is 16000 leva in Bulgaria. Feeding a 14 person family with home cooked meals would cost about 3000 leva per month (1500 euro. And I said, prices are similar in Greece). That leaves a whopping 6500 euro for clothes, utility bills, rent and whatnot, excluding any income the parents may have. Seriously. Shopping a trunk full of food in a store would cost you about 100 euro tops, if you stay awy from luxury stuff like liquour, fine wine, imported cheese and so on. That could last you for 3 days probably, depending on how and what you cook.