Energy poverty
13 European organisations are behind the “EmpowerMed” project to collectively build the right to energy.
We will never deny children access to school or a doctor, even if their families cannot afford it. Instead, we live in a system that forces the families of this children to assume unaffordable supply bills.
To end energy injustice we need to guarantee rights, because vulnerability comes hand-in-hand with difficulties to access housing, and access to other basic services and utilities such as electricity, gas, running water, telephone services or the internet.
The director of the Probitas Foundation explains that the project of renewable energies in different hospitals has allowed to provide quality healthcare to vulnerable countries as Sierra Leona and Angola.
We are breaching a long list of rights to people who are sleeping on the streets.
This initiative is a European-wide project and one of its main goals is to foster a greater knowledge on the impact of energy poverty.
Any palliative solution will not change the structural causes of the disempowerment of citizens, write Mònica Guiteras and Lourdes Berdié.
Any palliative solution will not change the structural causes of the disempowerment of citizens, write Mònica Guiteras and Lourdes Berdié.
The director of Fundació La Vinya shares his thoughts on the causes and effects of the lack of access to energy in Spain.
