This article is imported from our 2017 Stop Poverty Campaign web site. On 17th of October, at the UN in (…) Read more →
The 9 delegates have very specific and distinct fields of knowledge, and each one
Fab Fabros is an ATD Volunteer Corps Member in the Philippines. She works in Manila where impoverished families live in the North Cemetery.
“They’re trying their best to overcome poverty, to have a decent job.
Orleans Parish Prison Photo: Richard Ross On October 17 in New Orleans, Jaquin Thomas, age 15, apparently committed suicide in his cell (…) Read more →
Like Jaquin, the vast majority of people in the Orleans Parish Prison have not been
In a neglected suburb of Dakar, a community comes together to ensure everyone has dignified housing.
protective barriers with sand or rubble to keep their feet dry after the rains have
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How many have any kind of job training?
Cati, an educational assistant in one of the Alternative Education Clubs of the Policy Centre for Roma and Minorities in Bucharest, explains how her struggle for education for all is rooted in her own history.
But the pay wasn’t very good with these jobs because I didn’t have the certificates
Maryori Vasquez Delgado is an ATD Fourth World member who runs a street library in Peru. Below she talks about her experience.
I have a 1980s Volkswagen, and I realized it could be a useful part of the project
In Ireland, social work students learn from ATD Community Activists. One student said, “It made me evaluate what kind of social worker I want to be.”
I don’t have much of a voice myself.
For many years, ATD Fourth World has collaborated on projects with residents of a community in Haiti that suffers from a bad reputation.
They have always believed in their right to be themselves and to express their identity
In this speech Joseph Wresinski tells us why he chose ‚Take Justice To Heart‘ for the 30th anniversary of ATD Fourth World in 1987.
“How could they have the heart to hurt us, despise us, humiliate us, and constantly
