New Volunteer Corps member Hernán Mamani talks about his decision to join ATD Fourth World, a movement to overcome poverty.
On the one hand, we avoid becoming a bureaucracy, which often leads an organisation
It was twenty years ago that it started, in autumn 1997, during a Street Parliament that was held in front of the Quebec National Assembly.
On the one hand, the law commits us towards a Quebec without poverty.
African women speak out through Merging Knowledge. ATD Tanzania creates an environment so women in poverty can voice opinions freely.
However, it must be stressed that conformity to these cultural values does go hand
ATD members in Guatemala listen, share and band together in the face of poverty and COVID-19.
disconnected to the society and they have no means of survival because normally they live hand
Álvaro Iniesta Pérez is from Madrid, Spain. With his wife Marina, he joined ATD’s Volunteer Corps in 2000. The couple (…) Read more →
discovered an economy that was totally neglectful of people’s wellbeing and saw first hand
ATD Fourth World believes that “Poverty was created by people; only people can put an end to it.” This is (…) Read more →
“If we unite, hand-in-hand, to help each other, we can overcome poverty.”
Learn more about a Youth International Workcamp run by ATD at one of our centres in Europe. We have a number camps throughout the year.
Professionals will be on hand to help everyone to learn new skills.
Daring to learn from people in extreme poverty More frequently around the world, we hear people living in precarious situations (…) Read more →
We know from first-hand experience that when these people have the opportunity to
FULL TEXT ATD Tanzania June-August 2015 EN Editorial Dear friends, We are happy to send you some news from ATD (…) Read more →
Such projects too often exclude people who have first hand experience of what is
Belgian young people express their dreams for a better world.
And in addition to struggle, we need a second gesture: the open hand, reaching out
