News from Beirut – ATD Fourth World https://www.atd-fourthworld.org/news-from-beirut/
ATD members and friends speak out about recent events in Beirut.
With their agreement we are sharing here what Beitouna members have written to us
ATD members and friends speak out about recent events in Beirut.
With their agreement we are sharing here what Beitouna members have written to us
Martine LeCorre felt useless and guilty. Today, she urges others to recognize the strength people in poverty demonstrate every day.
We have been undermined by the measures that are supposed to help us.
In 1957, six European countries founded the “European Economic Community”. Thirty years later, in a June 1987 editorial, Joseph Wresinski (…) Read more →
His words could easily have been spoken today.
This past week saw the death of one of the men who lived in the homeless shelter of Port Louis, (…) Read more →
This word ‘exclusion’ should never have been brought into existence.
ATD Fourth World’s team in Haiti stayed open even in the face of violence, instability, and natural disasters.
Many people’s houses have been looted or burned.
People on the receiving end of government programs often see good ways to improve bureaucratic effectiveness. In Mauritius, recipients of (…) Read more →
One participant noted: “I would like to know what has to happen so we can have a
Facing the Impossible Together in Haiti.
People have for many years tried to force the Haitians to their knees.
ATD members in Latin America talk about solidarity in their neighbourhoods during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have to do something so that others don’t experience it as well, because it’s
This article is imported from our 2017 Stop Poverty Campaign web site. In July’s humid heat of Dakar, a group (…) Read more →
We all have the same aim in life even if we take different paths to get there.
Citizens meet with European Parliament and talk about poverty in the EU including legal documentation, housing and family policy.
According to local and national administrations, a number of people in Europe have