poverty

Homeless people have difficulties to access to hygiene and isolation spaces.

Nonprofit organizations urge governments all over the world to take steps to protect the most susceptible from the impacts of the coronavirus.

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Carlos Susías, president of European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN).

The chair of the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) believes Europe should set a minimum wage no lower than 70% of the average wage in each country.

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Individually, we live in our comfort zone and find it hard to leave it and actively work towards a change in our surroundings. 

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One of the main problems stems from vulture funds investing in real estate assets, as is the case of Blackstone.

The film shows how real estate speculation and gentrification are the tip of the iceberg of a problem that affects large cities like London, Berlin, New York and Barcelona.

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Share Festival is the first festival offering the audience the possibility to earn tickets for the festival through solidarity actions.

The pop-rock and urban music festival collaborates with more than 20 NGOs and aims to carry out up to 15,000 solidarity actions.

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The Health Us Nepal association is an NGO, the aim of which is to improve health conditions in the region of Humla, one of the most isolated and poorest parts of the country. 

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The houses in Haiti are very precarious and unmanageable for earthquakes.

Nine years after the devastating earthquake that hit the territory, the country lives under minimums. Going forward to Haiti, it helps to improve the energy efficiency of the area to protect people's health and end up with deforestation.

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Children have serious problems of violence, poverty and migrations.

The director of 'Save the Children' in Catalonia warns of the serious problems of violence, poverty and migrations that minors still suffer and the challenges for the protection of the children that remain to be resolved.

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In Spain,  7.676 persons are working as an aid worker in NGOs.

The coordination also expresses that, in recent years, attacks have risen on staff performing humanitarian tasks.

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Access to the Internet may help more vulnerable children to develop their potential and find references.  Source:UNICEF

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund highlights that access to the Internet may help more vulnerable children to develop their potential and find references, while also warning of the risks entailed.

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Homeless Commons main portal. Image: Arrels Foundation

The campaign launched by the Arrels Foundation and Arena Media aims to expose the “invisible reality” of homelessness. The image bank contains over 136 photographs.

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We are breaching a long list of rights to people who are sleeping on the streets. 

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