Author: Irina Papancheva

EU Alliance for Investing in Children’s response to the European Parliament’s vote on the European Social Fund Plus post-2027

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The EU Alliance for Investing in Children strongly opposes the position taken by the European Parliament in its vote on the Report on the European Social Fund Plus post-2027. In the EU alone, 20 million children – one in four – are at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Child poverty affects children’s physical and mental health, education, and well-being, and is among the […]

Moldova is championing care reform

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As Hope and Homes for Children’s Senior EU Advocacy Advisor, I recently visited Moldova to deliver training to some of the country’s leading children’s rights organisations. At the end of October, I spent three exceptional days in Chisinau, Moldova, where I’d been invited by the Children’s Rights Alliance to deliver a two-day training on EU […]