What are we doing?

Movement ATD Fourth World is present in some thirty countries and acts in the following areas:

  • It gets in touch with people in deep poverty.
  • It promotes access to knowledge, culture and education.
  • It leads pilot projects to guarantee everybody access to their fundamental rights.
  • It informs and mobilizes citizens, civil society, the authorities and institutions.
  • We conduct research to expand knowledge.
  • We work for participation by, and representation of, disadvantaged population groups within local, national, and international bodies.

For more details on these actions, click here and read the articles below.

Street Libraries and Doorstop Libraries

Street libraries or doorstop libraries provide a real opportunity to share amazing knowledge and ideas. The aim: to bring wonderful books to those very places where children and their families are living in extreme poverty, to set up genuine cultural events right in the heart of these housing estates deemed the poorest, these shantytowns, these areas which have been completely marginalised.

Discussing, meeting, speaking out, and living together, to ensure rights for all

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For the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, children, adults and members of the ATD Fourth World Movement met and conversed with political figures.

Do we have the right to live on this earth ?

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ATD Fourth World calls for an assessment of the Millenium Development Goals

Since the G20 meeting in Pittsburg it has been clear that the priority of the world’s leaders is to preserve the financial system. For us, however, it is human beings that remain at the heart of our concerns. One of our current priorities is to investigate the effects of the Millenium Development Goals on those people and families facing the most extreme consequences of social exclusion and poverty.
 
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Wherever men and women are condemned to live in extreme poverty, human rights are violated.
To come together to ensure that these rights be respected is our solemn duty.

Joseph Wresinski