Activities will be organized on Thursday, October 17 across Belgium on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the Service for Combating Poverty, Precariousness and Social Exclusion indicated on Thursday in a press release.
October 17 is “an opportunity to draw attention to all the people who fight against poverty, day after day,” declared the service, which also wants to take part in this day by informing the general public on activities organized by associations, local authorities and other stakeholders.
In Namur, for example, the Walloon Network to Combat Poverty has scheduled speeches, shows, exhibitions, conference debates and expression workshops, among other things.
In the capital, “Make the invisible visible” has planned a rally from 4:00 p.m. on the Place de la Bourse to denounce the scourge of administrative overload. “That is to say all the steps which obstruct and make impossible access to the fundamental and social rights of people”, specified the group of associations. The latter has also planned a lantern parade. She will travel the streets of Brussels between 7 and 8 p.m. “to highlight those who, too often, remain invisible”.
Other activities will also be organized in Brussels and elsewhere in Belgium, with the aim of reminding people “that poverty is a violation of human rights”.
People who cannot participate in one of them can still make their contribution by hanging, for example, a white sheet tied to a window.
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