Paris, Oktoba 17, 1987, Uzinduzi wa bamba kwa heshima ya wahanga wa umaskini.
Mnamo Oktoba 17, 1987, Padre Joseph Wresinski, mwanzilishi wa ATD Dunia ya Nne, alizindua bamba kwenye jumba la Haki za (…) Read more
Paris, 17 October 1987, Unveiling of the commemorative stone in honour of the victims of poverty
On 17 October 1987, Joseph Wresinski, founder of ATD Fourth World, inaugurated a commemorative stone on the Plaza of Human (…) Read more
Not all suffering corresponds to extreme poverty
(…) Not all suffering corresponds to extreme poverty, far from it! Suffering is part of the human condition, it can (…) Read more
Loving so as to understand, understanding so as to love.
You see the families who live in slums. You try to understand them, to perceive their reactions to your fraternal (…) Read more
On that 14th of July 1956, I entered into adversity
Rue des fleurs (A Path of Flowers) is a silent film produced in 1962 in the emergency housing camp in (…) Read more
The poorest, partners in the future of our world
I am thinking of the families uprooted from their villages
in the southern Sahara. Extreme poverty has forced
them to take to (…) Read more
When Children Smile
“Go ahead, smile!”
my mother would whisper to me,
whenever she was anxious herself,
having to face intimidating or worrisome people.
In moments of (…) Read more
Resist creaming off, stay in touch with our roots
One thing young people from the Fourth World need to know is that they belong to a group that has (…) Read more
Christmas, when the ‘last’ are first to share the good tidings
To better understand the amazement, the fear and the hope that the angel’s visit brought to the shepherds, we need (…) Read more
What do children experience when their families are trapped in poverty?
[…] What becomes of children in this marginalised world? How do they experience living in poverty? In a recent book, (…) Read more