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Bernard Monnet was born in Versailles, near Paris, where he lived the poverty and exclusion whit his family He saw his parents and many other families struggle to live in dignity In 1977, while living in Toulon, He discovered the ATD Fourth World Movement and he saw howit worked to defend the rights and dinitigy of his parents and all his community. Finally, he chose to become personally involved and committed to this movement as a Fourth World activist, to show solidarity with the poorest. He has since worked continuously within the Movement, including several years as a permanent volunteer with ATD Fourth World in the Netherlands and in France, in Lille and Paris. In 1987, he worked with young people who helped organize the first World Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty. On the evening of that first World Day, he realised that he could no longer live without carrying this light of hope and that he would answer the call to unite for human dignity all over the world.
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