The Volunteer Corps is a group of persons who work alongside and learn from people with an experience of extreme poverty.
Absence), inspired by her father’s story: “who died in circumstances of a poor man
By Diana Skelton My cell phone is flashing. Martine Le Corre is texting me: “I’m stuck with frustration.” She and (…) Read more →
rewritten [so] that we may live in a country where colour will not serve to put a man
Tatiane Soares decided not to live off leftovers anymore. Determined to stand up to poverty, small gestures of kindness can be very powerful.
For example, Tatiane remembers a man who sold roast chickens.
In El Alto Bolivia, ATD Fourth World member Victoria Huallpa is helping neighbors during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here she tells us about them.
When I looked around, I saw an elderly man who was a neighbor of mine.
This article is based on an interview that took place on 27th March, 2017 with Antonio Jimenez Gabarre (Toni), ATD (…) Read more →
This tram is driven by a man with lifeless hands, lifeless because of the cold.
Photo: Javier Pérez de Cuellar and Joseph Wresinski, New York, 1984. At a time when the international community is paying (…) Read more →
all fronts and that we cannot put one aspect of the fundamental dignity of any man
By Jacques Fierens, professor emeritus at the University of Namur and ATD Fourth World Ally on ATD’s social philosophy project.
the case in Piraeus long ago, a group was formed around the thinking of a wise man
Liebe Freundinnen, liebe Freunde, Wir hoffen, dass Sie noch immer voller Mut und Hoffnung sind. Wir sind noch weit davon (…) Read more →
Wie soll man sich häufig die Hände waschen, wenn kein fließendes Wasser zur Verfügung
In the 1980’s, ATD began work in Burkina Faso, but not with a project or specific goal. The first step was getting to know children who lived in the street.
There was Luc, a civil servant, and Jean, a young man working for an art dealer who
The December, 2016 Plenary Session of the European Fourth World People’s University took place at the European Economic and Social (…) Read more →
A man from the Netherlands felt a kind of violence in not being recognized by others
