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A significant proportion of our students are from families that fall below the national poverty line. We offer a range of support to ensure that financial issues don’t present an obstacle for learners, including:
Our student community work on a range of projects to tackle extreme poverty and inequality. Love for the Streets was established by two Manchester students to use youth events, content and social media marketing to tackle homelessness in partnership with local charities. Once a Month fights period poverty through public campaigns and providing sanitary products to vulnerable women across Manchester.
The Homeless Healthcare Society helps improve the healthcare of Manchester’s homeless population by raising awareness of the medical inequalities and stigmas faced by homeless patients when accessing healthcare. The aim is to ultimately improve the care provided by tomorrow’s healthcare professionals.
Team Rwanda is a partnership between The University of Manchester, the University of Rwanda and Azizi Life. Students volunteer their time assisting several schemes to alleviate poverty and aid community development.
Our Global Development Institute is the UK’s largest university-based postgraduate centre specialising in international development. More than 5,000 students have completed master’s programmes in international development since 2012.
Based in our University’s Students’ Union, the Big Change Society supports people who are homeless by paying for essential items such as home deposits, training courses and clothes for job interviews. The society also signposts students towards the best ways they can get involved with ending homelessness and promoting responsible giving.
Our Global Development Institute (GDI) is Europe’s largest research and teaching institute focused on poverty and inequality. The GDI runs the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre, which investigates how politics promotes inclusive development and government accountability. Recent research suggests that countries with the highest government capacity can reduce income poverty at twice the speed of countries with the weakest capacity. Spanning 16 countries, our research is deepening the understanding of governance in developing countries, and helping to influence policy and practices and improve people’s lives
Student financial support
Student action
Homeless Healthcare Society
Team Rwanda
International development study programmes
Big Change Society
Global Development Institute
