Tag: Poverty
Protestant churches will help with the fight against poverty
The Food Bank saw the demand for help rise by 36 percent last year, according to Kerk in Actie. Churches and private individuals will therefore provide food packages and supply…
Why capitalism is the answer to poverty and starvation, by Rainer Zitelmann
Before the emergence of capitalism, the majority of the world’s population was mired in extreme poverty. In 1820, approximately 90% of the world’s population lived in absolute poverty. Today, less…
Chaotic night, unsanitary conditions, dashed hopes… The daily life of a homeless family in Paris
/ Podcasts / Report France The latest figures from the night of solidarity are edifying. In Paris, more than 3,000 people were without accommodation the night of January 26 to…
Food insecurity: “people come more often to food distributions, once or twice a week”
According to a study published this Monday, February 27, almost two and a half million French people receive food aid, that’s three times more than ten years ago. Food has…
The number of people benefiting from food aid has tripled in France
Some 2.4 million French people depend on food aid. This is the result of a study published by the Food Bank on Monday, February 27, a figure that has tripled…
Sharing the mountain – So far so close
Since mountaineering or winter sports such as skiing have developed in the Alps and elsewhere, it is clear that the mountains have become the terrain of deep inequalities. An area…
Money to food bank, associations and entrepreneurs: IJsselstein gives tons extra to poverty reduction
We have to do something with that, says the Executive Board, which has therefore already decided to put a windfall of 500,000 euros into poverty reduction. It has now been…
France: the housing crisis worsens
4,150,000 people are poorly housed in France, i.e. they live in unhealthy or unsuitable places… 330,000 of them are homeless: their life resembles an obstacle course between rooms hotels, temporary…
In Davos, the NGO Oxfam warns of the ever-increasing concentration of wealth
As every year for 10 years now, the NGO Oxfam is taking advantage of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, a major meeting of the planet’s…
Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, among the worst cities in terms of quality of life
More than three years after the start of the economic crisis, in October 2019, Lebanon still does not see the end of the tunnel and the daily life of the…