Episode #22: Trapped in a hole – the reality of life on a low income
Imagine having to choose between turning on the heating, buying food or getting your child a school uniform. These areContinue Reading
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Episode #21: A fair chance in life for everyone – UN Special Rapporteur Olivier de Schutter
Children growing up in poverty experience disadvantage in housing, schooling and later on in employment, giving them an unfair chanceContinue Reading
Episode #20: Lives built on trash: the story of wastepickers in Mumbai – Saumya Roy
On the outskirts of Mumbai in India lie the Deonar garbage mountains. Like in so many places around the world,Continue Reading
Episode #19: The Social Guarantee – meeting the universal need to thrive
Giving people access to the things they need and ensuring there is a basic level of life’s essentials that noContinue Reading
Episode #18: Millennials, a generation of frustrated aspirations – Thomas Rochow
Secure employment and affordable housing: the two most desired goals of many millennials in the UK. Yet so often theyContinue Reading
Episode #17: Aspirations and poverty – a double-edged sword
Aspirations inspire individuals to become more economically and politically involved, but living in poverty often hampers such aspirations. Efforts toContinue Reading
Episode #16: Faith and empathy in community work – coming together to tackle poverty
Interfaith collaboration has enormous potential to mobilise community resources and foster a shared sense of humanity and respect. Working withContinue Reading
Episode #15: Navigating Japan’s social hierarchies and migrant hostilities – Dreux Richard
Japan is a hard place to be poor, and even more so as an immigrant. Many of the country’s NigerianContinue Reading
Episode #14: Digitising the fight against poverty – poor use of technology?
Social services around the world are rapidly being digitised. It is cheaper and more efficient, and it can improve theContinue Reading
Episode #13: Tackling child poverty: both urgency and opportunity
Child poverty has life-long adverse consequences, undermines children’s psychosocial wellbeing, and ultimately hurts all of us. Investing in the earlyContinue Reading