Women in homeless center help each other out, adding critical element of support in institutional setting.
distressing for this young woman to go to the basement to get clothes from the man
By Janine Béchet On March 17 2020, France went into lockdown for two months. Janine Béchet is an ATD Volunteer (…) Read more →
“Sit down,” says a man. “Do you want a coffee?” I introduce us.
ATD’s founder, Joseph Wresinski devoted his life to showing how people in poverty are more than their problems and defenders of human rights.
What man in deepest poverty has never been accused of playacting?
What if we lived in a society without poverty and social exclusion? What if everyone who sees poverty as inevitable (…) Read more →
The man who launched this initiative, Fr.
By Romain Fossey For several years, I was able to join an adventure: meeting people who lived and/or worked in (…) Read more →
When a malnourished woman shares her meal with the man she loves, that is dignity
In Democratic Republic of Congo, a neighbourhood outcast, once called a sorcerer, becomes a respected leader in the community.
Tapori children and adults allowed me to escape my isolation and today I’m a man
Every Monday afternoon for the past year, ATD members have been meeting to create sculptures depicting the strength and resilience (…) Read more →
of leaving no one behind. Three characters came into being: Christian, a lone man
For success in Guatemala, an education program needed to develop close ties with families in order to support students in school.
Her mother was worried about how the daughter’s relationship with a young man in
“I was in a group home as a child, and they used to make us sing at Christmas. Can you (…) Read more →
One Christmas Eve, a man named Bob said this to Ronald, an ATD Fourth World volunteer
Thoughts and reflections on the death of George Floyd and race relations in the USA.
, “officer of the peace,” Derek Chauvin with his knee on the throat of a black man
