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For two years now, a diverse team of twelve people have been carrying out a research project called Education for (…) Read more →
I am able to speak with local leaders or anybody else who comes to ask me something
A Guatemala reading club brings a community and families together. It also improves the lives of the children that take part.
As long as I read, I become the protagonist of the story and I forget everything else
ATD Volunteer Corps member Martine Hosselet-Herbignat writes about gender and oppression and women in poverty in relation to feminism.
“There you are making sacrifices just to have a life like everyone else.
France sees dramatic increase in families living in a welfare hotel. Families endure harsh conditions for years, while hotel owners profit.
bed had to serve as a desk for homework, a table to eat on, a sofa, and whatever else
ATD members in Guatemala listen, share and band together in the face of poverty and COVID-19.
about others, we know what it’s like and we want to do something so that somebody else
Anna Franze (age 36) teaches in the social work department of the University of Hamburg. She also does voluntary work (…) Read more →
There I see more openness and commitment of people to one another than anywhere else
Martine LeCorre felt useless and guilty. Today, she urges others to recognize the strength people in poverty demonstrate every day.
strength and we became vulnerable, and thus only vulnerable, in the eyes of everyone else
Shelter Library allows education to continue after the humanitarian emergency that followed the Fuego volcano eruption in Guatemala.
He had to pay someone else to do it.
A man in Democratic Republic of Congo needed some help. To his surprise, he found himself rebuilding another family’s house.
Or else, we have to cover the children with bags while they sleep because the iron
Social and Institutional Maltreatment is the theme of October 17, 2024 – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
He feels a deep sense of injustice in not being treated the same as everyone else
