Children push us and engage us In Madrid, the children of the Tapori Ventilla group heard their mothers talking vividly (…) Read more →
Tapori groups around the world have taken up the same idea: children have reflected
STOP POVERTY: All Together in Dignity One hundred years ago in France, Joseph Wresinski, ATD Fourth World’s founder, was born (…) Read more →
We invite you to sign it and have it signed by others.
Conversations Across the Social Spectrum in Peru Since 2016, conversations focusing on the importance of joining forces to promote transformative (…) Read more →
focusing on the importance of joining forces to promote transformative social activism have
Children in Seville, Spain launch a petition to keep their library open on weekends.
Often, they invent their own stories based on what they have read.
Three Philippines youth from backgrounds of poverty support ATD activities in their own communities.
“However, despite everything that happens to us, we still have hope.
It is possible to change an economy that wastes resources, destroys the planet, and exploits people into a more human economy?
However, people who live in poverty frequently have job-related expertise that goes
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 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.
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
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How many have any kind of job training?
