Banco de Alimentos

The food bank doesn't assist people, associations and local governments. This entitys then assist families or the people that have economic problems. In Spain near 8 million people, the 20% of the population, live with incomes lower than 50% of the rent "national per cápita", and that's why they are considered poor. The reasons for the powerty are varied. The unemployement and the precarious work are the main resons. The advanced age or chilhood and , the diseases, the social injustices, analfabetism, immigration, belonging to different ethnic groups, drug adctions, alcoholism, y monoparental families are other reasons of the powerty. Who is assisted? Unemployed people - 9% Immigrants - 28% Disabled people - 2% Old people - 21 % Terminally ill people - 6% Teenagers - 7% Drug addicted - 12% Mental disbled -1% Poor people -10% Other - 4%

The Video Draft

We have done an advertisement against poverty. To see it, click here.

Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca

Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca is a Spanish organization that campaigns for the right to a home. The PAH is a social movement struggling for decent housing, having emerged in Barcelona in February 2009 and now extending across the Spanish territory. It surged in response to the real estate crisis of 2008 that triggered the bursting of the Spanish housing bubble and became a strong part of the movements that later formed to contest austerity politics in the context of the sovereign debt crisis. As such, the PAH also came to constitute a part of the 15M movement that emerged in May 2011. The PAH brings together people who find it difficult to pay back their mortgages or who find themselves in a process of eviction due to unpaid mortgages, and people in solidarity with this problem. In January 2013, the PAH was awarded the Spanish national prize for human rights.

Europe in the Basque Country

The poster

We are going to do a poster about poverty. Beñat and I have thought that a poster showing two wealthy people would be a good idea to denounce the situation of some people while others live without any kind of problem. This is only a draft:

Links

-http://www.poverty.ac.uk/ - This is a webpage about poverty and social exclusion that helps specific cases to overcome poverty. -http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=961 - This is the webpage of the European Comission that explains what is poverty and social exclusion.