by vf-editor | 2023/04/30 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News, Stories, Uncategorized
Poverty affects everyone including children, in fact, they are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than adults[1]. Poverty is not only economic but is multidimensional, affecting fundamental rights including education, adequate housing, and access to drinking...
by vf-editor | 2023/04/30 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News, Stories, Uncategorized
According to recent figures published by Statistics Netherlands (CBS)[1], 209,000 children in the Netherlands are living at risk of poverty, with their parents earning a salary below the national low-income threshold. The ‘Team against Poverty’ in Tilburg – with the...
by vf-editor | 2023/03/31 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News, Uncategorized
Since the 2015 economic crisis in Venezuela, Colombia has hosted approximately 1.7 million Venezuelans, representing more than 37% of the approximately 4.6 million Venezuelan refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean.[1] Over half of the Venezuelan population living...
by vf-editor | 2023/03/31 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News, Stories, Uncategorized
The 13 Houses Campaign keeps growing: with the launch of the call for proposals on 30 August 2022, we witnessed the Vincentian desire to strengthen a ‘network of charity’ for homeless people that goes beyond geographical borders. The objective of the call was to...
by vf-editor | 2023/02/24 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News, Uncategorized
‘It only took two weeks to go from poverty to absolute homelessness in Honduras and Guatemala’. (BBC, 2020) Through these few words, we can already feel the catastrophic effects of hurricanes Eta and Iota that devastated Central America in 2020. The...
by vf-editor | 2023/02/24 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News, Uncategorized
Billions of people experience homelessness in the world (1), and its causes and forms are diverse. Therefore, it requires answers that go beyond providing a home but which also include wider and more holistic aspects. For example, the provision of psychological...
