Book Extracts

Changing the rules of the game

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

One event from my childhood
left profound repercussions in my life.
It happened at a time when horrible poverty had hit our (…) Read more →

In his interview with Gilles Anouil, Father Joseph Wresinski recounts the beginnings of the ATD Fourth World Movement in the (…) Read more →

More than ever, rest, leisure and holidays are rightly considered as essential activities. In this 1986 text, Father Joseph Wresinski (…) Read more →

On 22 June 2021, Alwine de Vos van Steenwijk would have been 100 years old. This anniversary gives us the (…) Read more →

In the introduction of his book “The Poor are the Church”, after having evoked his childhood in the text “A (…) Read more →

“We need to be simultaneously in proximity to extreme poverty and distant from it. Proximity, because the poorest are our (…) Read more →

In this time of crisis, this message, written in 1984, is as relevant now as in the plea made by (…) Read more →

In this extract from a training session in 1962, Father Joseph Wresinski invites the volunteers working at the camp in (…) Read more →

I arrived on the plateau called “Le Château de France” on the fourteenth of July, 1956. The sun was scorching (…) Read more →