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

Solidar (SOLIDAR)

SOLIDAR is a European network of 53 NGOs active in over 90 countries working to advance social justice in Europe and worldwide. SOLIDAR lobbies the EU and international institutions in three primary areas: social affairs (more social Europe), international cooperation (development cooperation) and education (lifelong learning for all).

See online : Solidar

Specific Message

Read Solidar’s specific messages for the outcome of 2010.

Planned activities

SOLIDAR network/Secretariat

Activities focusing on the following topics: Working poor, precarious labour and decent living and working conditions in Europe. This comprises the issues posted work, temporary agency work, undocumented work by migrants from EU MS or third countries (not least in the field of social and health services, in particular long-term care and household-related services).

SOLIDAR members

Bilateral and multilateral cooperation of SOLIDAR members will focus on the following topics:

Child poverty;
Integration of immigrants;
Over-indebtedness and financial exclusion;
Youth unemployment and transition of socially young adults from education and training into the labour market. These joint activities will focus on an exchange of good practice, should involve people experiencing poverty or social exclusion and come up with guides for practitioners and policy recommendations.