From 14 to 18 October, Arnhem Nijmegen University of Applied Sciences (HAN) is organising the Week Against Poverty.

Huis van Compassie Nijmegen organises various activities, including for people living in poverty. Focus Week Poverty 2024 can help you understand poverty and how to better tackle causes and consequences. Interesting for everyone!

Movisie has developed the Focus Week Poverty 2024. Every day you receive an e-mail with knowledge and an assignment on poverty. This will help you better understand and put poverty on the agenda and hone your skills to better support people. Each day focuses on a different theme with a corresponding assignment. Each participant is automatically sent these. Participation takes 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 implementing professionals, volunteers and experts by experience. But also for students, policy officers or other interested parties.

Sign up for Focus Week Poverty 2024

The Focus Week is an initiative of Movisie in cooperation 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).