OPEN

Do you believe that children in one-parent families in Ireland should suffer disproportionately high levels of poverty? No? At OPEN, we don’t either. But one- parent families are four and half times more likely than anyone else to live in poverty. This means that families don’t have enough money to make ends meet. So almost one in five live in debt just to pay the bills and the same number go without basics like new clothes and proper heating. OPEN works to provide much-needed social and educational supports for one-parent families in their own communities. Through our network of local groups, more than 10,000 families are supported each year.