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During the pandemic, the NGO “KHAM" Delcevo had an important role to play in raising awareness among the Roma community about how to be protected from COVID-19. In order to achieve our objectives we implemented online education for pregnant women about going to the Gynecologist and taking care of their children’s physical and mental health. Also, we supported Roma children living in poverty, and families with low income to attend the online education. Finally, we supported Roma families who were affected by the economic crisis to apply for social welfare benefits.
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Why a Child Guarantee is needed?
Child poverty is one of the biggest challenges Europe is currently facing. According to the latest Eurostat data, in 2018 24.3% of the population aged 0 to 17 years were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in Europe, meaning that these children were living in households with at least one of the following three conditions: at-risk-of-poverty or severely materially deprived or living in (quasi-)jobless households (i
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Last January, Inventare Insieme (also Tau Center) in Palermo launched the Zisa Danisinni Generative Educating Communities’. It is a new project from ‘Con i Bambini - With the children’ under the Fund for Combating Child Educational Poverty. It is aimed at around 700 young people and their families.
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The ultimate goal of Life Skills and Financial Education for Peace Manual is to enhance the activity of children and young people as Peace Builders. An estimated 230 million children worldwide currently live in conflict-affected areas. Alfatoun's work starts with an acknowledgement that poverty and injustice are both major causes and major consequences of conflict. Poverty, injustice and conflict combine to create vicious cycles capable of denying peace and prosperity across many decades.
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‘At REYN, we aim to break through the negative cycle’
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Despite important strides in the fight against poverty over the past two decades with nearly 1.1 billion people escaping extreme poverty since 1990, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
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ISSA is proud to have become a member of the Global Coalition Against Child Poverty joining together with an array of likeminded organzations to keep this issue within the global agenda and the national development policies and priorities of many countries.
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October 17th marks International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the central theme for 2015 is coming together to end poverty and discrimination. The United Nations are using this opportunity to highlight the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, where ending poverty in all its forms everywhere is one of the goals. What changes can we expect in this coming period?
