Farmers represent two thirds of the poorest across the planet”
Across the Mekong region in South East Asia and in North-ern parts of Thailand, 85% of farmers are unable to meet their basic needs on a farming income. Today, Asia’s challenge is not only to farm more organically. The main challenge is to enable farmers to be more self...
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Roma families from Portugal have demolished the ’wall of shame’ which has surrounded a very poor area called the ’Pedreiras neighbourhood’ for almost 10 years. It separated the largest Roma community in Beja from the rest of the Alentejo society.
For safety reasons, the wall which is 100 metres long and three metres high...
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Everything concerned with poverty, every person left by the wayside, involves me, and I go to see. My work is very simple: I go into the neighbourhoods, I walk around, usually nobody counts the poor, but you can always find them.
My desire is to see that the person has a certain dignity; for them to stand up straight, to hold on. It’s a...
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In Hungary, the Real Pearl Foundation’s primary focus is art education, talent development, family community development programmes, and institutional cooperation; amongst authorities, schools, hospitals and NGOs.
We work in Told, one of the most disadvantaged regions of the country, where the majority of our students live in deep poverty,...
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The NGO Together! in Ethiopia was founded by a team of professionals who have several years experience working in disability main streaming, computer training, vocational education, and rehabilitation support. They have developed a holistic project aimed at the educational and professional inclusion of people with visual impairments.
Their...
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May 2019 - The consultation is now finished.
We have received 74 contributions from 34 countries, which have enriched the two proposals below. The contributions were presented to the United Nations...
