From October 14 to 18, the Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen (HAN) is organizing the Week Against Poverty.
Huis van Compassie Nijmegen organizes various activities, including for people living in poverty. The Focus Week Poverty 2024 can help you understand poverty and how to better address causes and consequences. Interesting for everyone!
Movisie has developed the Focus Week Poverty 2024. Every day you will receive an email with knowledge and an assignment about poverty. In this way you can better understand poverty, put it on the agenda and hone your skills to better support people. Each day is dedicated to a different theme with a corresponding assignment. Every participant will automatically receive this assignment. Participation costs a maximum of 15 minutes per day.
Assignments, tips and tools
Focus Week Poverty 2024 enriches you with knowledge about money worries and problems, long-term poverty and what it does to people. It addresses causes and consequences of not being able to make ends meet, stress and emotions associated with poverty and debt, the importance of early detection and the structural causes of poverty. Interesting for professionals, volunteers and experts by experience. But also for students, policy staff or other interested parties.
sign up for Focus Week Poverty 2024
The Focus Week is an initiative of Movisie in collaboration with Week against Poverty (HAN), Association of District Teams, Sociaal Werk Nederland, Poverty Coalition Utrecht, the Netherlands Youth Institute (NJi), the Verwey Jonker Institute and NVVK (branch association for financial services), Nibud and Beroepsvereniging van professionals in sociaal werk (BPSW).