Tag Archives: European

How Victorian Workhouses Changed Charity | European History | Extra History

📜 After you’ve learned about the Victorian Workhouse, head over to http://GiveDirectly.org/extra where you can give aid directly to a family in rural Kenya. Giving them money to spend how they choose. Poverty has always been a complex challenge, but our views on it have evolved dramatically over time. For centuries, poverty was seen as […]

Treating immigrants and refugees with dignity / Rachel Krofcheck/ University of Glasgow

Rachel is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and studies Global Migration & Social Justice. She is passionate about supporting immigrants and refugees and working to end the dehumanisation and criminalisation of these communities. To help her work towards her ambition, we took her to visit organisations in Glasgow which are supporting refugees; Refuweegee and Milk CafĂ© (both […]