"what really wears homeless people out is time. Always waiting, always being on the go…" - "being paid regularly, but my debts still mounting up anyway" - "constant pressure. It wears you down. Nobody prepared me for living in such harsh conditions" - "days without bread are the longest days" - "working full-time, but … not earning enough to make a decent living" - "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" - "every agency wanting the same papers. And more photocopies every time" - "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." - "hard to talk about, but when I did start to talk to others I felt no different from them and I wasn’t embarrassed" - "my children inheriting my poverty" - "being undocumented, so for you I don’t exist"

Association des Femmes de l’Europe Méridionale (AFEM )

L’AFEM est une fédération européenne qui regroupe des personnes physiques, des associations et des plateformes d’associations de Chypre, d’Espagne, de France, de Grèce, d’Italie et du Portugal. Elle soutient la construction d’une Europe démocratique fondée sur le respect et la garantie effective des droits de la personne humaine et notamment du droit fondamental à l’égalité substantielle entre les femmes et les hommes ainsi que sur le respect de la diversité des cultures.

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