"constant pressure. It wears you down. Nobody prepared me for living in such harsh conditions" - "days without bread are the longest days" - "stealing our future by keeping us out of touch with the knowledge-based society" - "every agency wanting the same papers. And more photocopies every time" - "what really wears homeless people out is time. Always waiting, always being on the go…" - "being undocumented, so for you I don’t exist" - "my children inheriting my poverty" - "being old and living alone. I am sick. I am afraid of loneliness … I cry a lot but try to look calm and collected when I go out." - "being paid regularly, but my debts still mounting up anyway" - "hard to talk about, but when I did start to talk to others I felt no different from them and I wasn’t embarrassed" - "working full-time, but … not earning enough to make a decent living" - "waking up in bad housing conditions which saps the will to do anything"

2010 Coalition website: information and documentation tool

Wednesday 12 October 2011, by European Anti Poverty Network

This website was created for the 2010 Coalition of Social NGOs, on the occasion of the 2010 European Year against Poverty and Social exclusion. It is no longer displaying ongoing events but serves as a great stock of information and documentation on the Year. You can also contact EAPN, the coordinator of this website, at: team eapn.eu

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