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Local Matters: Passerell Asbl is crowdfunding

Passerell Asbl is crowdfunding to keep up their contact point for women and girls. In our interview on Local Matters, campaign manager Constanze Jacquemot explains why the support is necessary.

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tags: migration, asylum, refugeed, law, social
categories: Local Matters
Wednesday 11.06.24
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

LM on tour: Make farming something social

Farmers struggle to pass their family farms on because the new generation doesn’t want to be farmers anymore. For Tom Kass, one reason is the isolation that goes hand in hand with living on a farm. To avoid this, he recreated the Kass-Haff as a community project that brings people and especially kids closer to the farm. On today's Local Matters, Franziska takes you along for a visit.

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tags: Local Matters, farming, social, animals, Mersch
categories: Local Matters
Wednesday 02.07.24
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Overindebtedness: How debts relate to health issues

Amélie Dolo knows: Debts make sick. And she also knows that people have to make debts to stay healthy. Amélie Dolo is the head of the Inter-Actions' over-indebtedness counseling service. In our interview on Local Matters, she explains how debts and health are related.

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tags: Local Matters, local, Luxembourg, debts, finances, social
categories: Local Matters, socials issues
Thursday 12.07.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Overindebtedness: Ending up stuck in debts

When something unexpected happens in life – job loss or sickness – people risk making more debts than they can afford. The Ligue Médico-sociale offers consultancy for people with excessive debts. Christian Schumacher, the head of the department, is our guest on Local Matters.

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tags: Local Matters, local, Luxembourg, social, finances, debts
categories: socials issues, Local Matters
Wednesday 12.06.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Challenges for the elderly: Learning English at the senior club

At the English class for seniors at the senior club Beim Kiosk in Schifflange, learning English is one part of the deal, staying active and being together the more important one. For our third and last episode of this week's Local Matters on the risk of loneliness for elderly people, we took the microphone and participated at the English class for seniors.

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tags: Local Matters, local, Luxembourg, social, age, health, education
categories: Local Matters
Thursday 11.09.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Challenges for the elderly: The "Pensiounscoach" program

Upon retiring, people need to restructure their everyday life. In our interview, Laura Zuccoli and Astrid Lauterbach explain how the Gero Kompetenzzenter fir den Alter supports people taking this step. They both volunteer as "pensiounscoaches". This is our first interview of this week's Local Matters on the risk of falling into loneliness for elderly people.

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tags: local, Luxembourg, Local Matters, social
categories: Local Matters
Wednesday 11.08.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Homelessness: Creating safe spaces for women

A live in the streets is more dangerous and more violent for women than for men. Women tend to hide instead of seeking help, and avoid mixed spaces as they are often not adapted to women's needs. In Brussels, the Asbl L'Ilot last month opened a new day care centre - exclusively for women. Franziska went to interview the director Ariane Dierickx.

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tags: Local Matters, Belgium, homeless, social, women, gender equality
categories: Local Matters
Thursday 10.19.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Alternative primary schools: The Bëschklassen in Esch

On Local Matters, we have a visit at the Bëschklassen in Esch. The school is based in the Ellergronn forest. Martine Maeder, a teacher at the school, shows us around their usual learning space in the woods.

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tags: local, Luxembourg, education, school, children, social, Local Matters
categories: Local Matters
Wednesday 09.13.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Climate crisis: Why Luxembourg's activists don't disturb

Why are Luxembourg’s climate activists so well-behaved? Whereas militants in other countries invent new forms of protest and intend to disrupt the regular functioning of society, Luxembourg’s activists stay quiet. In our interview on Local Matters, Sofia and Brice, members of the collective Rise for Climate Luxembourg tell us why they struggle to mobilize allies for more disruptive forms of protest.

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tags: Local Matters, local, Luxembourg, climate, activism, social, environment
categories: Local Matters, socials issues
Thursday 07.13.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Working poor: Lunch at the Vollekskichen

On Local Matters today, we had lunch at the Vollekskichen, a restaurant with low prices for people with a small budget.

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tags: Local Matters, Luxembourg, local, work, working poor, wyp, social, lunch, poverty
categories: Local Matters, socials issues
Thursday 07.06.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Working poor: Interview with Carole Reckinger from Caritas

More and more people need to shop their groceries at the épicerie sociale. On Local Matters, Carole Reckinger, head of political campaigning for Caritas Luxembourg, tells us why.

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tags: Local Matters, local, Luxembourg, social, poverty, work, caritas
categories: Local Matters
Wednesday 07.05.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Working poor: 13 percent of people are poor despite working

More than 13% of the population lives below the poverty threshold despite working. In our interview on Local Matters, economist Anne-Catherine Guio explains who is most affected by in-work-poverty.

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tags: Local Matters, local, Luxembourg, poverty, work, working poor, wyp, social
categories: Local Matters, socials issues
Tuesday 07.04.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Voices Matter: Charel's story about living on the streets

Out on the Theaterplaz, with his back against a pole and a cup out in front of him, Charel wishes passersby a nice day, and wraps the lingering ones up in conversation. Many who walk on come back around. Charel is so good at begging, he turned the activity into a profitable business. Join Nicolas Calmes as he too converses with Charel and learns about his life story.

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tags: Voices Matter, Luxembourg, social, homeless
categories: socials issues, Voices Matter
Monday 07.03.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Domestic violence: The Red Cross' service "Riicht eraus"

The Luxembourg Red Cross offers a service for perpetrators of domestic violence. The aim of the service Riicht eraus is to prevent people from using violence again. In our interview on Local Matters, Laurence Bouquet, the director of the service, explains how this works and why it is necessary.

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tags: Local Matters, social, local, domestic violence, gender equality
categories: Local Matters, socials issues
Tuesday 04.18.23
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Homelessness: A random encounter, a personal story

For our last episode of this week’s Local Matters series on homelessness, I went to the social restaurant "Stemm vun der Strooss". I meant to ask those who live on the streets how they manage to keep up when it’s freezing out there. One man in his fifties was happy to talk, but not really interested in the questions I had for him. Let's listen to what he he wants to tell.

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tags: Local Matters, local, Luxembourg, social, homeless
categories: Local Matters
Thursday 12.22.22
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Homelessness: At the emergency shelter "Wanteraktioun"

250 beds are available at Wanteraktioun (WAK), the emergency shelter for homeless people in winter.

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tags: Local Matters, local, Luxembourg, social, homeless
categories: Local Matters
Wednesday 12.21.22
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Homelessness: The Red Cross calls for owners to rent their properties

As it is freezing outside, homeless people quickly become the most vulnerable in society. With a new call, the Red Cross wants to prevent people from ending up on the street by signing rental contracts with potential landlords and landladies. On Local Matters, we’ve had Enes Agovic on the microphone, social worker with the Red Cross.

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tags: Local Matters, local, Luxembourg, social, Red Cross, homeless
categories: Local Matters
Tuesday 12.20.22
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Drug consumers: Therapy for parents with small children

A visit to the therapeutical centre Manternach, a centre for drug addictions that has recently presented their child-parent program where parents of young children receive addiction therapy together with their children.

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tags: local, Luxembourg, social, health, drugs, family, Local Matters
categories: Local Matters
Thursday 12.08.22
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Local Matters: Abrigado's drug consumption room

For Local Matters, Claudia Allar showed us around at the centre Abrigado in Luxembourg-city, a safe space for drug users.

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tags: local, Luxembourg, drugs, social, health, Local Matters
categories: Local Matters
Wednesday 12.07.22
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 

Drug consumption: Interview with Nadine Berndt from the Ministry of Health

In our interview on Local Matters, Nadine Berndt from the Ministry of Health told us how many people in Luxembourg use drugs, how these numbers shifted in recent years and what is been done to prevent and fight problematic drug use.

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tags: health, luxembourg, drugs, acr, interview, local, social, Local Matters
categories: Local Matters
Tuesday 12.06.22
Posted by Franziska Peschel
 
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