Text of an address by Isabelle Pypaert Perrin at the event “Participation: What a Day to Eradicate Poverty Can Do”, (…) Read more →
As you have heard from the previous speakers, and especially from Ms Broxton and
The relentless struggle of ATD members in Peru to access water and their solidarity in times of Covid-19.
The dinosaurs have no water in their homes and have been thirsty for days”.
In Peru, ATD Activist Sarita Guevara spends her days helping neighbors, teaching four levels of school, and trying to survive.
I have the fabric, but I don’t have any more thread or elastic.
“We all need a friend, not just someone who gives us money or clothes”, says person in Ireland who feels this is central to overcome poverty.
You have no independence and no freedom.
An interview with Cassam Uteem, President of the International Movement ATD Fourth World, on the occasion of the International Day (…) Read more →
For years, you have used the lens of human rights to look at efforts to overcome
We call them legally non-existent, non-existent, or phantom citizens. According to UNICEF (2019), these terms describe 230 million children under (…) Read more →
At one time, you had to have an identity to exist.
Members of ATD UK speak about APLE Collective, a UK network of individuals who experience poverty and how they are lived experience experts on poverty.
All of us have an understanding of what poverty can do to your life.
Participants talk about ATD’s Working and Learning Together program in Guatemala: recycling, decent working conditions, and self-confidence.
They have the same jobs.
Each year on October 17, the World Day for Overcoming Poverty, citizens across the world and across socio-economic backgrounds gather, (…) Read more →
We know many families who fight every day to have a better life.
Guillermo Díaz Linares, a member of ATD Fourth World’s Volunteer Corps in Guatemala, discusses the time he spent mentoring a (…) Read more →
I have been on the Guatemalan team since 2014.
