Rethinking Human Activity
Image above: The Strike, Robert Koehler, 1886, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. This message, intended for the General Conference on Unemployment (…) Read more
Women – the last line of defence against poverty
In this extract from a training session in 1962, Father Joseph Wresinski invites the volunteers working at the camp in (…) Read more
Facing my people
I arrived on the plateau called “Le Château de France” on the fourteenth of July, 1956. The sun was scorching (…) Read more
The Children of the Fourth World in Search of Knowledge
Few children have known such an early, diverse, and formative experience of life as those living in poverty. At an (…) Read more
America’s Destiny
As the American election approaches, we can look back on how Joseph Wresinski saw American’s destiny. “As a people, you (…) Read more
Międzynarodowe Centrum im. Ojca Józefa Wrzesińskiego
Zebrać historię bardzo biednych Zrozumieć przyczyny nędzy Pogłębić zaangażowanie tych, którzy z nią walczą W sobotę dnia 10 lutego 2007 (…) Read more
Rethinking Poverty and the World in Order to Take Action
Above: Joseph Wresinski in 1987. Excerpt from Rethinking Our World from the Perspective of Poverty with Joseph Wresinski. This book (…) Read more
17 October: How Can We Be in a State of Silence and Mobilisation?
At the end of July 1987, addressing the volunteers mobilised for the preparation of the large rally of human rights (…) Read more
A precious and revealing history
Address by Father Joseph Wresinski at the Seminar “Extreme Poverty and Exclusion in Africa”, Pierrelaye, France, 19 May 1981. Dear (…) Read more
Take Justice To Heart
Addressing members of ATD Fourth World in Heerlen, the Netherlands, on 15 November 1986, Father Joseph Wresinski explained why he (…) Read more