We are living in a time of great crises and change, and the issues are emerging very dynamically. While in the previous two years people’s livelihoods and aspects of poverty were strongly affected by the COVID-19 crisis, this year we have reached a completely abnormal situation, with large-scale warfare in Europe caused by Russia’s unjustified aggression against Ukraine. Every day, people are being killed and injured, war crimes are being committed and everything that people have worked for generations to create is being destroyed.
The war in Ukraine is also a major cause of the significant worsening of poverty-related problems in Estonia, with a very significant drop in living standards, which hits those experiencing poverty particularly hard. Income growth is well below inflation, with prices of essentials rising particularly rapidly, the energy crisis is particularly acute in the Baltic States, and the wave of refugees is the largest in our history.
Instead of hunger and homelessness, Estonia’s poverty is increasingly expressed as inequality, remoteness, loneliness, lack of opportunities and uncertainty about the future.
Poverty isn’t only material nor is it only expressed in income disparities. It also means being deprived of freedom of choice.
Main challenges
Contact details
EAPN Estonia NGO
EE10922 (Estonia)
Tel: +372 51 10 923
E-mail: eapn.ee (@) gmail.com
Website: www.eapn.ee