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At the beginning of President Emmanuel Macron’s term of office, ATD Fourth World had made their traditional request for an (…) Read more →
I told him I’d previously been sent on a work placement
African women speak out through Merging Knowledge. ATD Tanzania creates an environment so women in poverty can voice opinions freely.
I was sent home with my husband feeling completely
By Jacques Fierens, professor emeritus at the University of Namur and ATD Fourth World Ally on ATD’s social philosophy project.
imaginary Émile rather than of his own offspring, whom he sent
People on welfare are often stereotyped as people who are ‘happy’ to be idle, living off of the work of others. As Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, underlined in his statement at the end of his visit to the USA in December 2017, “I have been struck by the extent to which caricatured narratives about the purported innate differences between rich and poor have been sold to the electorate by some politicians and media, and have been allowed to define the debate. The rich are industrious, entrepreneurial, patriotic, and the drivers of economic success. The poor are wasters, losers, and scammers. As a result, money spent on welfare is money down the drain.”
France, in 2013 ATD Fourth World and a research centre sent
Coincidence? While the President of the Central African Republic (CAR) assembled some of the country’s well-known figures to reflect on (…) Read more →
I sent the children home at the end of the day with
Beatriz Monje is Spanish and has been part of the ATD Fourth World international Volunteer Corps since 1997. She has (…) Read more →
long ago, I received a beautiful letter from Madrid, sent
Activist says that poverty is not neglect and that people in poverty will go out of their way to help others.
They sent me to a B&B, away from all my family and
The relentless struggle of ATD members in Peru to access water and their solidarity in times of Covid-19.
Eventually the Lima Drinking Water and Sewerage Service sent
Sixty-eight participants from twenty different countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Indian Ocean, and Europe, met on November 12-15, (…) Read more →
the Swiss government to the thousands of children sent
How a child in the Philippines pushes ATD Fourth World to rethink its educational projects, aspirations, and recreate its programs.
After several years, Sarah was sent to work with ATD
