“All children have plenty of ability, but they don’t all have opportunities. What you bring to the neighbourhood, this is (…) Read more →
“The door of the commuter train opens. Noisy-le-Grand.
By Isabelle Pypaert Perrin Last March, I visited the Central African Republic to meet ATD Fourth World members there. It (…) Read more →
The second project is a very ambitious one to train socio-cultural mediators.
Above photo courtesy of Tiljala SHED. Cycles of history come to mind when visiting India. In 1967 it was on (…) Read more →
the word “tapori” being used to insult children who lived on the streets or in train
“It’s worth helping others. In the future you may need to get help. We are not created in the world (…) Read more →
Homeless people in Warsaw are told to get off the trains and are not respected by
Carine Parent on what it means to be an ATD Volunteer Corps member.
anyone making a conscious effort to build connections” Carine Parent She chose to train
Most people who work informally in the subway — musicians, beggars, people selling things on the sly — haven’t chosen to be there. They have been left with no option but to depend on others’ goodwill — this is a humiliating situation that is met with hostility from many passengers.
When I finally came across him again, Eric was smoking a cigarette between two trains
Members of ATD UK speak about APLE Collective, a UK network of individuals who experience poverty and how they are lived experience experts on poverty.
We go to train social workers so that they can learn from our lived experience of
In Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, video clubs present a temptation to children and young people. Parents and children alike discussed their (…) Read more →
We need to train the managers of the video clubs so that they can run them responsibly
Orleans Parish Prison Photo: Richard Ross On October 17 in New Orleans, Jaquin Thomas, age 15, apparently committed suicide in his cell (…) Read more →
FFLIC trains parents to advocate for their children to prevent the school suspensions
On Friday April 4, 2014, over thirty young people came together at the ATD Fourth World courtyard in Bangui, invited (…) Read more →
Act, reflect, share and train – it has become natural.
