What are we doing?

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

  • reaching out to people in extreme poverty.
  • promoting access to knowledge, culture and education.
  • leading pilot projects to guarantee everybody access to their fundamental rights.
  • informing and mobilizing citizens, civil society, the authorities and institutions.
  • conducting research to expand knowledge on poverty.
  • working 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.

Skills for Life

Frimhurst Family House

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.

Striving Together to End Poverty

Here is the Contract of commitments by the International Movement ATD Fourth World, for 2008-2012, made public on the occasion of the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
 

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Reaching out to people in extreme poverty
Promoting access to knowledge, culture and education.
Leading pilot projects to guarantee everybody access to their fundamental rights.
Informing and mobilizing citizens, civil society, the authorities and institutions.
Conducting research to expand knowledge on poverty.
Working for participation by, and representation of, disadvantaged population groups within local, national, and international bodies.
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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