Monday, October 17, 2016
4:30 pm
Free admission and open to the public
Today, poor families are facing one of the worst affordable housing crises in generations. Many are spending almost all they have to live in decrepit housing in our cities’ worst neighborhoods. What it means to be poor in America today is to be crushed by the high cost...
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The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty will be celebrated here in Thailand.
It will be on Sunday, October 16 at 3PM, Lumphini Park in front of the main playground.
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Every year since 2000 on 17 October, celebrations for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty have been taking place in Dublin.
This year, come and join us on Custom House Quay around the Human Rights and Poverty Stone (close the the Famine Statues) from 10.45 (Commemoration will start sharp at 11am) to mark this day together and to...
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13th - 17th October - Drum Out Poverty, India and YouTube Vigil
On the 13th of October, we envisage one group of a thousand children in New Delhi, India making music with buckets to highlight water and sanitation issues which is Goal 6 under the Sustainable Development Goals.
On the 14th, which is World Poverty Day, we will begin uploading short...
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7th Scottish Assembly for Tackling Poverty
Monday 17 October 2016
09:30am – 16:30pm
Since 2010 the Poverty Alliance has been organising the annual Scottish Assembly for Tackling Poverty. This has become an event that brings together people with experience of poverty, community and voluntary organisations, activists,...
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2016 and 2017 will be exceptional years for those who continuously support the most abandoned people in their efforts to free themselves from the grip and violence of extreme poverty.
In 2016 we...
