Near to Setubal, Portugal, there is a ‘Social Restaurant’ where every day 115 meals are served, at prices which vary according to the means of the customer. A lot of customers pay nothing, others 10, 20, 30 or 40 pence.
About 4 years ago we started collecting unused food from restaurants, and we distributed it to people in need. But...
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Zaw MH, a student from Myanmar in South East Asia, has been writing poems since he was 15 as a way to support his country. Now 23 years old, he likes walking in the city and getting to know the people working in the streets. Then he writes about them to keep track of track of what he has learnt. This poem is about a father selling on the street at...
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Adonis is a medical student from Cameroon. Wherever he goes, whether it is Togo, Morocco, or elsewhere in the world, he is determined to reach out to the most isolated populations: “I want to go to remote areas so I can volunteer my time and help people get through difficult situations.” Here, he shares with us his experiences in the...
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In 1997 Mamadou G, a young man from a poor area, was put in charge of a small initiative running a government infant nutrition programme. The women were used to malnutrition, to needing vaccinations, and to frequent illnesses, particularly diarrhoea and malaria which is a big problem in this part of Dakar which is frequently flooded.
At the end...
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The work conducted by the ATD Fourth World Movement on five continents to evaluate the impact of the Millennium goals confirms that “anti-poverty policies not thought out with the poorest only very rarely have any impact on them, and too often turn against them”.
On the other hand, if we are capable of creating the conditions to...
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The Millennium Development Goals were established in the year 2000. The deadline for the goals is 2015. Time has come to evaluate and prepare new goals. We want extreme poverty to end.
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