Writings

New ideas that truly transform our ways of thinking and acting

The innovations, the really new ideas that profoundly change our hearts, our ways of thinking and, consequently, our structures and (…) Read more →

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 →