You Know, Mom, I Really Love You!

When I recall the little boy who told me one day,
“You know, I really love my mother,”
I don’t think the (…) Read more →

The Whole Family Was Afraid

I hadn’t seen Jack, Nicholas, or their family
since they left the emergency housing camp in Noisy-le-Grand
five years ago.
Even though I (…) Read more →

A Sister’s Love

An Extract from “Tomorrow Will Be Different” ( Paroles pour demain)
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A Sister’s Love

Why Choose Poverty?

How do we justify volunteers’ poverty? In our Western civilization, poverty has not been valued as something good in and (…) Read more →

Poverty and means of communication.

Their situation of poverty closes all means of communication to the poor
Why do the poor remain so little known? (…) Read more →

Do the poor have their own culture?

Volunteers’ meeting, April 1965 (the original French version is found in Écrits et paroles aux Volontaires, I, 1960-1967, pp. 316-321)
Do (…) Read more →

In the vicious circle of violence

The French original of this text was first published in 1970 (Feuille de route N° 19). Extract from: Gilles Anouil, (…) Read more →