Poverty
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Central Europe
More and more German children live in poverty
The number of German families living in poverty is increasing. More than a fifth of the country's children and a quarter of the young adults are at risk of being unable to make ends meet. That is shown by new research from the Bertelsmann Foundation on Thursday, as reported by…
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Eastern Europe
Christian charity worker will not leave Ukraine despite war threat
For Dutch Stefanie de Wildt (30), a fieldworker for the Kimon Foundation in Ukraine, the threat of war has left its mark on daily reality. Sometimes she is startled by the sound of a fighter jet to which she had previously paid no attention. “Then it shoots through your head:…
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Central Europe
Swiss churches in action against poverty
The Swiss Evangelical Alliance (SEA), the Braille Evangelical Mission, and several Christian organisations have launched the StopPauvreté (StopPoverty) campaign. The action focuses on children in poverty. Evangelical Focus reports this. The organisers state that “the world seems to be more broken than ever. Global pandemics, violence and hunger, are prominent…
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Christian Life
Face to face with distressing poverty in Ukraine
Stefanie de Wildt (29) lives in one of the poorest regions of Ukraine. The 29-year-old lady from the Netherlands works on behalf of the Dutch Christian missionary organisation Kimon for a family of ten children, seven of whom are foster children. De Wildt regularly visits the poorest in the region…