Public lectures

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 →

“Moral and political responsibility as well as scientific rigor demand that University turns its attention to the Fourth World, not (…) Read more →

Any action is more complicated when one lives in a constantly changing situation in a remote, poorly served area, unaware (…) Read more →

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

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

The history of the poorest people is relayed to others only when they feature in the lives of the non-poor: (…) Read more →

Since the end of the 1970s, and in particular during the Year of the Child in 1979, the (ATD) Fourth (…) Read more →

Just one month before October 17, “World Day for Overcoming Poverty”, this speech by Father Joseph Wresinski reminds us of (…) Read more →

Dear friends,
You accepted our invitation to be here with us, so how could we not call you friends? You have (…) Read more →

Speech at the symposium on “Culture and Poverty” organised by Mr Antoine Lion, special advisor to the Ministry for Culture, (…) Read more →