"constant pressure. It wears you down. Nobody prepared me for living in such harsh conditions" - "being paid regularly, but my debts still mounting up anyway" - "working full-time, but … not earning enough to make a decent living" - "my children inheriting my poverty" - "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" - "days without bread are the longest days" - "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." - "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…" - "stealing our future by keeping us out of touch with the knowledge-based society"

What has the EU done for people in poverty?

Tuesday 23 February 2010, by European Anti Poverty Network

This short video was produced for the EAPN International Conference on 19 February 2010. Past participants of the People Experiencing Poverty Delegation Offer their views and reflections on what the EU has done for people in poverty and how its role might improve and evolve in the next decade.

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