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

736 ideas for 736 MEPs

Tuesday 15 June 2010, by European Anti Poverty Network

The Studies and Social Projects Association coordinates "736 ideas for a dream", a project that is taking place in six European cities from Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Greece and Ireland, with the mission of creating 736 postcards -one for each member of the European Parliament- that reflects on the current problems that generate social exclusion in Europe, as well as specific ways to solve them.

The general aim of this project is to create new ways of communication and dialogue amongst members of the European Parliament and its citizens, together in the fight against social exclusion.

The project is structured around the following products and activities:

  1. Six workshop programmes to produce the 736 postcards
  2. A website to present the results and methodology in a digital format
  3. A book that collects the 736 postcards and presents the main aims of this project.
  4. An exhibit to take place during the Day of Europe (9/05/2011) in which the postcards will be presented to the public.

More information and the postcards on the official website.

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