"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." - "my children inheriting my poverty" - "days without bread are the longest days" - "being undocumented, so for you I don’t exist" - "hard to talk about, but when I did start to talk to others I felt no different from them and I wasn’t embarrassed" - "stealing our future by keeping us out of touch with the knowledge-based society" - "constant pressure. It wears you down. Nobody prepared me for living in such harsh conditions" - "working full-time, but … not earning enough to make a decent living" - "being paid regularly, but my debts still mounting up anyway" - "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…" - "waking up in bad housing conditions which saps the will to do anything"

FEANTSA Video: Interviews with EU decision makers, 2009

Tuesday 2 March 2010

Four service users from the Relais Social Charleroi in Belgium conducted interviews with three European decision makers for FEANTSA.

They talked about the role of the EU in combating homelessness, participation of service users and the experience of homelessness.

This video brings together extracts from the interviews with Philippe Courard, State Secretary for Social Integration and the Fight against Poverty, Belgium, Isabelle Durant, Member and Vice President of the European Parliament and Jérôme Vignon, European Commission.

More videos accessible on Feantsa website.

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