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What does it mean to live in poverty? If you pictured a young family living in a crowded makeshift community in India, you’d be right. But that image alone isn’t

Phill Pickering is the Director of Services at CAP. Earlier this year he shared with our staff his thoughts on what it means to be ‘created for community’. We hope

John Kirkby, the Founder of Christians Against Poverty, received the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) medal on Thursday, 13 December 2018. At an investiture ceremony held at Buckingham Palace,

People often think that poverty only belongs to certain people. Through my life I have found out that’s not true. Poverty doesn’t choose. Serious illness forced me to stop working

I was working as a carpenter when my position was made redundant along with at least 100 others. Around the same time my wife and I found out that we

It’s not something we like to talk about. It’s not always something that is easy to understand or comprehend. Yet the reality is, so often we are faced with the

After years of enduring domestic abuse in her marriage, Wendy finally made the courageous decision to leave with her two sons and find temporary safety in a refuge. “After we

Poverty in Australia has a feminine face. In our country, 33% of single parents live below the poverty line and the majority of these are women. Studies have found that