"constant pressure. It wears you down. Nobody prepared me for living in such harsh conditions" - "every agency wanting the same papers. And more photocopies every time" - "working full-time, but … not earning enough to make a decent living" - "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 undocumented, so for you I don’t exist" - "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" - "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" - "days without bread are the longest days" - "my children inheriting my poverty" - "what really wears homeless people out is time. Always waiting, always being on the go…"

Get on your bike to defend Human Dignity!

Sunday 17 January 2010, by European Anti Poverty Network

NGOs are aiming to create a symbolic transfer between National Focus Weeks by a person/s relaying the NGO messages for the year from one focus week to the next.

Bicycles will be used for local transport and you are invited to ‘get on your bicycle’ and to greet the guest/s at the point of their arrival in your country and accompany them to the point where they will meet some local dignitaries and media.

We are promoting the idea that the National Implementing Bodies charged with organising activities during 2010 at national level should support activities during this week.

check the calendar of all focus weeks!

Contacts for the National Implementing Bodies can be found on the Commission’s website: http://www.2010againstpoverty.eu.

A vélo pour défendre la dignité humaine ! Cette news en français .

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