Anti-Poverty Week
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Anti Poverty Week
Anti-Poverty Week is a week where all Australians are encouraged to organise or take part in an activity aiming to highlight or overcome issues of poverty and hardship here in Australia or overseas. It was established in Australia as an expansion of the UN's annual International Anti-Poverty Day
Meeting Resources
- Video: Inequality in Australia - a nation divided. This video offers a brief illustration on how wealth inequality impacts Australians of different financial backgrounds. Watch HERE.
- Video: Income and Wealth Inequality: Crash Course Economics. This video offers a more indepth 'crash course' in the different forms of economic inequality. Watch HERE.
Additional Resources
Interested in learning more? Below are links to reports and further reading.
- The Salvation Army Policy Statements. Flick to page 9 for The Salvation Army's recommendations on poverty and disadvantage.
- The Best Start: Saving children's lives in their first 1000 days. This report draws on positive experiences in World Vision programmes and beyond to demonstrate how positive nutrition outcomes for mothers and children can be delivered at the community level.
- Are the kids alright? Young Australians in their middle years : Final summary report of the Australian Child Wellbeing Project. This summary report focuses on four factors that have emerged as important influences on young people’s wellbeing: hunger and severe deprivation, missing school, experience of pressure from schoolwork, and support networks that protect young people’s wellbeing.
Category: Events / Campaigns, Promotion / Communication
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