Tag: Poverty
Tackling ‘period poverty’ with Tampon Tuesday
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News March 5 event will highlight challenges faced by marginalized families and women Author of the article: Postmedia Staff Published Feb 17, 2024 • Last…
A daytime marauding to keep in touch with the homeless people of Livry-Gargan
Located very close to Paris, it is the only city in the Seine-Saint-Denis department which has set up a daytime patrol for homeless people. With Samu social 93, a team…
Municipality of Utrecht struggles with poverty budget: ‘We can only stick plasters’
These points are included in the municipality’s memorandum. Not all minimum wage earners will continue to receive the same assistance. For example, the municipality wants to save on student allowances.…
The homeless of Solferino ask the government for decent housing
Since December 25, 38 families have been camping in a huge tent located in the Solférino metro station, in the beautiful 7th arrondissement of Paris, installed at the initiative of…
according to a collective, the Darmanin law will push thousands of families into great poverty
Next Thursday, the Constitutional Council will decide and say whether the Asylum and Immigration law, adopted a month ago by Parliament, is consistent with the Constitution or not. Some measurements…
President Tinubu suspends a minister and the public agency dedicated to poverty
The corruption scandal rocking Nigeria affects the National Social Investment Program Agency (NSIPA), an organization fighting poverty, suspended on Friday January 12 due to accusations of embezzlement of public funds.…
Utrecht has many poverty regulations, but not everyone knows where to find them: ‘Difficult when you live so isolated’
In Utrecht, residents can use special assistance, an individual income supplement or the U-pass. One of them is Saskia Brandewijn. “I have been on social assistance for about 6.5 years…
the number of homeless people is soaring
This is the consequence of the cost of living and housing crises in the UK. This phenomenon, which particularly concerns rural areas, has varied causes, and the associations’ appeals to…
Thousands of migrants march toward the United States in an “Exodus from Poverty”
In Mexico, several thousand people who left the south of the country on Christmas Eve want to reach the border with the United States on foot. Entire families, coming from…
Periodic protection: a national collection to fight against menstrual poverty
News Published on 12/17/2023 at 6:31 a.m. Updated 12/17/2023 at 6:31 a.m. Reading 2 min. Nearly four million women aged 18 to 50 face menstrual poverty in France, a figure…