"every agency wanting the same papers. And more photocopies every time" - "being old and living alone. I am sick. I am afraid of loneliness … I cry a lot but try to look calm and collected when I go out." - "my children inheriting my poverty" - "what really wears homeless people out is time. Always waiting, always being on the go…" - "days without bread are the longest days" - "constant pressure. It wears you down. Nobody prepared me for living in such harsh conditions" - "working full-time, but … not earning enough to make a decent living" - "waking up in bad housing conditions which saps the will to do anything" - "being undocumented, so for you I don’t exist" - "being paid regularly, but my debts still mounting up anyway" - "hard to talk about, but when I did start to talk to others I felt no different from them and I wasn’t embarrassed" - "stealing our future by keeping us out of touch with the knowledge-based society"

The Combined European Bureau for Social Development (CEBSD )

The Combined European Bureau for Social Development (CEBSD) consists of 10 national/regional community development organisations. CEBSD is committed to working at the European policy level to inform and influence the European Union, Council of Europe and other institutions, especially on the issues of social inclusion, citizens’ participation and civil society, from a community/social development perspective. It seeks to do this in partnership with other European networks.

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