This article is imported from our 2017 Stop Poverty Campaign web site. In July’s humid heat of Dakar, a group (…) Read more →
ATD Fourth World trains us to think, to programme and to evaluate.
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
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
“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.
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
“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
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.
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
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
Above: Arne Strand (Christian Michelsen Institute), Diana Skelton (ATD Fourth World), and Alberto Cimadamore (University of Bergen) Every day, around (…) Read more →
the peace accords, friends of ATD Fourth World from Rwanda visited Bangui to help train
