EAPN Portugal celebrates its thirty years of life, a life full of challenges and obstacles to overcome. We celebrate the Pearl Wedding, because the pearl is an object that takes time to gain solidity, so it is used as a metaphor of firmness and perseverance. This analogy makes perfect sense to explain and translate also…
EAPN Greece is active within the “Foundations for Futures Europe” project. This 6-member partnership (Ireland: Maynooth University, Sweden: URKRAFT, Ireland: EAPN Ireland, Hungary: Pécs University, Serbia: Novi Sad University, Greece: EAPN Greece aims to develop a network of Higher Education and Civil Society (NGOs) Partners to engage citizens in debates and discussion groups around the future…
Left corner drawing: Problem: digitizing increases the distance. Right corner drawing: Problem: social assistance as a maze that many people cannot get out of. Middle: Consideration: Actively stimulate or give time and space. At the beginning of October, the Second Round Table discussion on changes in the Participation Act (social assistance) will be organized between…
2021 Within the global context, the situation in Greece remains fluid with the recent formal statistics claiming that 28.9% of the population was at risk of poverty or social exclusion related to the incomes declared in 2020, affecting mostly 18-64 year olds (31.9%). Poverty Watch Main Findings Most Affected Groups Elderly people People suffering from…
During the pandemic, families experiencing and at risk of poverty and social exclusion have disproportionately been affected. In the UK, a £20 uplift to Universal Credit was introduced at the beginning of the pandemic, which totals an increase of £1040 a year. The Derbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centre (DUWC), as a member of EAPN UK, took…
Living water, that’s my name, that’s me – An autobiography of Mayim’s life in a world full of limitations ‘Mayim. Living water, that’s my name, that’s me – An autobiography about the life of Mayim in a world full of limitations’ is a special book by Marcel Kolder from Almere, written from the point of…
The BOSS – Building a Network to Boost Social Secure Europe project aims to tackle poverty and social exclusion through an established quality framework, in which the civil society organisations are already familiar with the needs of their target groups and have an understanding of gender equality issues. EAPN Latvia is leading on this project,…
The true story of Stella de Swart: from super villa to food bank . Stella, one of the featured people from our new Voices From The Ground video series, is releasing a new book describing her experience of living in poverty. Entitled Armoede krijg je gratis (You get poverty for free), she highlights how poverty can…
In response to the Porto Social Summit, BAPN along with trade unions ACV, ABVV, ACLVB expressed their disappointment regarding the poverty reduction targets, by stating that they are not ambitious enough. This reflects the EAPN statement which highlights that a poverty reduction target of 15 million people by 2030 is less ambitious than was stated…
The month of May doesn’t just signal disappointing Spring weather, it is also Eurovision month! Fans will be delighted to know that the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017, Salvador Sobral, has collaborated with EAPN Portugal with their campaigns. Last year, he featured as the ambassador for the campaign ‘SOS Roma communities.’ Thanks to…
