Writings

My mother taught us to be proud

I started to work at four years
I was four years old when I started to earn a living by serving (…) Read more →

It was 30 years ago that I first visited the camp at Noisy le Grand where 252 families had been (…) Read more →

-Between reform and revolution, which do you choose?
-Is this the right question? The poorest have seen so many reforms and (…) Read more →

I want to speak to you about an abused people; abused because they are on the margins of where rights (…) Read more →

“So long as the poor remain at the bottom of our social ladder, our societies will not be based on (…) Read more →

The ATD Fourth World Movement has sought to denounce the existence of a population that has been cast aside to (…) Read more →

It was 1959. I had been in the Noisy-le-Grand camp for over two years. I was tired; my nights were (…) Read more →

The poorest families yearn to become part of our shared history, at last under their true identity, no longer as (…) Read more →

Making the poor work at any job, whatever it may be, so long as they are useful, has always been (…) Read more →

Health represents a real dread for people in extreme poverty. This constant anxiety comes from them having no control over (…) Read more →