Poverty Aware Practice in Galway University and Trinity College Dublin
On Monday 20th November ATD Ireland delivered a session of our ‘poverty aware practice’ module to social work master’s students at Galway university led by community activists Lorraine, Jimmy, Christina and Paul. This purpose of this module is to enable social work students to have a better understanding of poverty and promote a dialogue between those who have experience of social work intervention and the future social workers. Lorraine began by asking the students ‘what does poverty and socio- economic discrimination mean to you?’ The class brought up familiar ideas like facing stigma and having to make difficult choices. One student discussed…