Spanish Pupils Attend Summer School for Lunch

Eight-year-old Jose Alberto is back in the classroom in the August heat even as other children are at the beach or campsite for their summer holidays. He comes to learn and play, but above all for the free lunch, a lifeline for many poor families hit by Spain's recession. "Things are going very badly and we need this help," says his mother, Margarita Barco, 45, arriving to pick him up from this school in the southern city of Seville. "I am ...