The number of German families living in poverty is increasing. More than a fifth of the country's children and a quarter of the young adults are at risk of being unable to make ends meet.

Last night, he only slept two hours. Actually, Marek Graczkourski (49) from Krakow has not rested more than three hours a night for four years. Life on the street drains his energy.

For Dutch Stefanie de Wildt (30), a fieldworker for the Kimon Foundation in Ukraine, the threat of war has left its mark on daily reality. Sometimes she is startled by the sound of a fighter jet to which she had previously paid no attention. "Then it shoots through your head: it has started!"

The Swiss Evangelical Alliance (SEA), the Braille Evangelical Mission, and several Christian organisations have launched the StopPauvreté (StopPoverty) campaign. The action focuses on children in poverty.

Stefanie de Wildt (29) lives in one of the poorest regions of Ukraine. Yet, she prefers Ukraine to the Netherlands. “That Western prosperity, it really does not make you happy.”