Is private education deliberately a “school for the rich”? The debate has returned with force in recent months, following the publication of indicators which show that private establishments – whether Catholic or not – welcome pupils from families who are wealthier and more cultured than those of the audience. These “social positioning indicators” (IPS) assign […]
It is with emotion but without surprise that Anne-Claire discovered on the Internet the video, which has gone viral, in which Maëlle, a student of Sciences Po, alert, in tears, about her financial difficulties. Like her, this psychology student at the University of Montpellier is 20 years old and comes from Reunion. Like her, Anne-Claire […]
Because there is no age for asking questions, trying to understand, wanting to act, Esther Duflo is publishing a series of albums (1), sensitive and intelligent, intended for the youth. Objective: to help children take another look at poverty, “far from prejudices, myths and caricatures”. This phenomenon, she recalls in the introduction to each book, […]
In two days, Ernado, 6, will enter CE1 at the Michel-Servet school, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon. Every evening, after his school day, the little boy will spend more than an hour on public transport to reach the narrow hotel room he shares, in Saint-Fons, with his parents, Mirsada, 28 years old , and […]
The idea is dear to the President of the Republic: inequalities must be reduced at the root, from an early age. This ambition already underpinned the 2018 poverty plan. It is taken up, this Thursday, June 2, by the Institut Montaigne, a liberal think tank, in a report “The future is played out in poor […]
This was one of the big demands on the roundabouts during the “yellow vests” crisis. Mothers recounted their difficult end of the month and the refusal of the father of their children to pay their child support. Suddenly, “single-parent families” and their poverty, already identified for years by statistics, have become a political emergency. → […]
KabulDuring the completion of six months of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, many changes are being seen. The people of Afghanistan are now feeling safe and feeling less violence after decades. But the Afghan economy, once run on foreign aid, is now on the verge of collapse. Thousands of people have fled or have been expelled […]
► “You have to meet the right people” Farida, in charge of the “childhood solidarity” file at Secours populaire “I grew up in a very modest family. So I know that these children are missing out on part of their childhood and that the risk for them is to be content with that life. I […]
La Croix: How does the Cnaf support the poorest families? Isabelle Sancerni: Of the 98.6 billion euros per year that we pay to families, some target the poorest of them. In recent years, we have thus funded the “social mix bonus”, in order to encourage nurseries to open places for children in poverty and allow […]
They are called Hinata, Max and Abdelmalek. They are respectively 11 years old – “Soon 12! “ – 9 and 7 years old and are siblings. They have friends, play soccer, love manga, like children their age. However, their life is special. For a year and a half, they have been hosted by number 115 […]