ATD Fourth World pays its respects to Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a former UN Secretary-General, who died on 16 Feb. 2016. (…) Read more →
He was a man who “incarnated the words inscribed in the preamble of the Charter of
Um Armut besser zu verstehen, hat ein internationales Forschungsteam – unter der Leitung der Universität Oxford und der internationalen Bewegung (…) Read more →
„Man muss die Komplexität der Armut beleuchten, denn um Armut zu bekämpfen, gilt
In Burkina Faso, the loss of a simple identity paper can cause a cascade of problems, especially for people who already face many difficulties in their lives.
One tells his friend about a man who was killed in a street fight.
On the outskirts of Dakar, in the heart of the Guinaw Rails North district, is Gestu and Xeex Ndool house, (…) Read more →
On the soap, we write ’ man is the cure for man’. ” Soap is the pretext for working
The video below is a speech by a former inmate, Moïse Compaoré, who spent years imprisoned in the Ivory Coast. (…) Read more →
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that just because you are in prison you are not a man
ATD bids good-by to Jacques Petidor, activist for literacy and human rights whose courage and integrity inspired all who met him.
It was the injustice Jacques endured as a child that made the man who became an activist
2015 was a violent and brutal year. Children like Aylan, found dead on a Turkish beach, have once again been the first victims of our adult conflicts, victims of our inability to realize that we are all born equal in dignity and human rights, and of our societal structure that creates injustice and segregation.
In the determination of the man that the child had become.
„Wie können wir die Herausforderungen, vor die uns Armut stellt, überwinden?” An einem heißen Sommertag An einem extrem heißen Dienstag (…) Read more →
seine Talente und Herausforderungen nachzudenken und Überlegungen anzustellen, wie man
“Committing your time, that is the real commitment” I am both a seamstress and a teacher at a pre-school. There (…) Read more →
In my neighborhood, there is an elderly man who nobody approaches.
Social policy and environmental degradation in Senegal often undermine efforts to escape hardship and poverty.
For example, this man took his wife to the hospital for her broken leg.
