"days without bread are the longest days" - "hard to talk about, but when I did start to talk to others I felt no different from them and I wasn’t embarrassed" - "every agency wanting the same papers. And more photocopies every time" - "working full-time, but … not earning enough to make a decent living" - "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" - "waking up in bad housing conditions which saps the will to do anything" - "stealing our future by keeping us out of touch with the knowledge-based society" - "being undocumented, so for you I don’t exist" - "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…"

EAPN Hungary reports on Hungary Focus Week

Thursday 1 April 2010, by European Anti Poverty Network

On 22 March, the opening event of the European Year in Hungary gave the floor to people facing poverty, thanks notably to EAPN Hungary’s programme "Voices of poverty".

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EAPN Hungary (HAPN) stand at the Opening Event of the 2010 Year in Hungary
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Csabane Kiss from the Network as a person experiencing poverty.

A seminar on prevention and managing over-indebtedness concluded on the need to mobilise for a more responsible behaviour from the bank sector and integrate financial education into school programmes. EAPN gave a press conference and presented its new report “Snapshots – recorded 2009” which compiles 60 interviews with families from different parts of the country.

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EAPN Hungary Seminar on Over-indebtedness
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Peter Vass from the Hungarian Network as a professional.

The messages of the 2010 Coalition of Social NGOs were transferred from Luxemburg to Hungary. This meeting gave them the opportunity to share experiences and knowledge related to the different situation between both countries.

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EAPN Hungary meets representative of EAPN Luxembourg
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Zsuzsa Ferge from the Network and as a well-known public person.

Read EAPN Hungary’s full report on the focus week.

Visit the official Hungarian website for the 2010 European Year.

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