Working to build a just society where human rights are respected, human dignity is protected, human development is facilitated and the environment is respected and protected.
“We do not usually know how to distinguish between what is essential and what is secondary. We spend our lives running about here and there after pleasures that are forever eluding us and leaving us unsatisfied. We try to be happy come what may, without wondering whether we are causing anyone else to suffer in the process. We are prepared to do anything to amass and defend our possessions, which are neither lasting nor true sources of happiness.”
(The Dalai Lama)
A new report just published has found that 450,000 people in Ireland (10% of the population) were in food poverty in 2010.
The households identified as being most vulnerable to food poverty are (i) households on low incomes, (ii) households with 3 or more children under 18, (iii) households where the head of the household is ill or disabled, (iv) lone parent households and (v) households headed by a person who is unemployed.
