Meintest du essen?
May 27, 2015, Paris: Genevieve de Gaulle Anthonioz – resistance fighter, deportee to Ravensbrück concentration camp, and ardent human rights (…) Read more →
That is what wins out in the end because it’s more powerful than anything else.
Launched in September 2015, the handbook is already proving to be an invaluable tool for explaining in clear and simply language the specific implications of human rights for people who have been marginalized by the rest of society.
2016 “Your manual shows us a new way to govern that is not taught anywhere else
Stopping the cycle of poverty means listening to people in poverty, hearing what they say and putting them on equal footing with the rest of society.
They practically never let anyone else talk.
In our information age, the way people and groups are represented in the media helps determine the place they hold (…) Read more →
Like everyone else, people who live in poverty aspire to more than being associated
“Are we really looking for those in deepest poverty? How does the presence and action of ATD Fourth World change (…) Read more →
We feel free; take pride when we are treated like everyone else.
Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz, hero of the French resistance, describes the Fourth World People’s University as “a new kind of education for citizenship”.
She attended just like everyone else, speaking like the other participants, simply
How ATD Madagascar is working with families in extreme poverty. Including work with 24 priority families and support for children and teenagers.
They help children and teenagers see that they do not have to follow in any one els
At the Centre for Family Support in Noisy-le-Grand (France), ATD Fourth World provides housing for families who have been homeless. (…) Read more →
immediately, and public housing agencies, which place strict regulations before all else
Susan McMahon, member of the Poverty the Poverty Truth Community in Scotland speaking about the emotional impact of poverty.
“Something in me woke up” We then went back into a larger group and somebody else
This past week saw the death of one of the men who lived in the homeless shelter of Port Louis, (…) Read more →
It is those people living in deep poverty who know this better than anyone else.
