Etiket: poverty
Lions club Assen Drentsche Aa helps children in poverty with Sinterklaas campaign: ‘Demand has doubled’
It won’t be long before Sinterklaas sets foot in Drenthe again. This can be a difficult time for children living in poverty. That is why Lions Club Assen Drentsche Aa…
Poverty decreases due to energy surcharge: not a million people with low income, but ‘only’ 640,000
Nearly a million Dutch people would have lived in poverty last year if the government had not spent billions of euros on energy support. Thanks to these measures, the number…
Vlaams Belang addresses poverty and social housing policy…
The proceeds from the campaign will go entirely to ‘Help us Help’. “More and more people are having a hard time with us,” says regional chairman Niels Delbaere. “We want…
Activists for energy poverty bring to Parliament the power cuts carried out by the Mossos
Since they started school, every day, around thirty minors in Sabadell (Vallès Occidental) occupy tables and chairs in the bars in their neighborhood to do their homework. There is no…
13 percent of Belgian children suffer from material child poverty
A new study on deprivation in children (read: essential things that are denied to them) shows that almost 13 percent in our country suffer from material deprivation. This is the…
Expo poverty policy Bredene: active guidance for those who are out of work
Tomorrow is World Day of Resistance Against Poverty. Bredene puts this in the spotlight with an exhibition, with testimonies about the municipality’s poverty policy. Those who are unemployed are actively…
Meppel is investigating whether the standard for poverty regulations can be relaxed
According to Statistics Netherlands, just under 6 percent of all households in Meppel live in poverty. About 5 percent of children in Meppel grow up in poverty. This corresponds to…
Thodé Commission: alleviate poverty on BES islands with a social minimum
Porridge and bread – that is the breakfast that the forty children of the Governor de Graaff School on St. Eustatius are served every morning at half past seven, before…
Amazon launches the fourth edition of “Un clic para el cole” in collaboration with the High Commissioner against Child Poverty
The project A click for school was born in 2020, the result of Amazon.es’ commitment to education, and is intended to support Spanish early childhood, primary and secondary education centers.…
Advancement of poverty: a predictable impact
Even though it’s announced, it doesn’t stop impacting. With the latest measurement of the Permanent Household Survey (EPH), poverty once again passed the 40% threshold (40.1%), which means that 4…