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

Faces of Poverty in Europe: Exhibition in Denmark

Thursday 1 July 2010, by European Anti Poverty Network

On Thursday 15 April the conference Faces of Poverty was organised by SOLIDAR’s Danish member FIC in the framework of the European Year 2010 for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. The event brought together about 100 participants from European countries, the European Commission, trade unions, NGOs, Danish MEPs and the Danish Institute for Human rights.

Participants discussed concrete proposals concerning Europe’s responsibilities in reducing poverty and different forms of social exclusion and to strengthen commitment towards policies to promote solidarity, fair distribution of income and wealth, a dignified life and decent living and working conditions for all. Read more on SOLIDAR’s website.

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