“I always read the Letter to Friends with much interest and admiration,often thinking to myself that I too have witnessed acts of courage,
goodness and solidarity among the poorest people.”
A correspondent from Burkina Faso
« The Letter to Friends around the World » which is published three times a year,...
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Special 17 October 2020
United Nations theme for October 17, 2020 :
"Acting together to achieve social and environmental justice for all"
October 17 is the World Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty. It has been commemorated since 1987, the year when, at the call of Joseph Wresinski, thousands of people from all walks of life gathered...
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At the end of January, we launched a consultation by asking the ATD Fourth World teams, friends of the Forum, and members of the International Committee for October 17 to choose between two themes which one is closest to their reality. We received a total of 76 contributions, representing 36 countries.
Thank you to all those who took part, your...
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For years now we have been sharing our commitments and our ways of acting for a world without extreme poverty: in these days of world pandemic, we need to feel connected to share our worries, but above all to exchange our strengths, our ideas, our ways of being there for those people who are more at risk than others because they already live in...
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The training course on «social and cultural mediation» was created in Bangui, in the Central African Republic in 2016, following the idea «Let’s encourage young people who are already involved in their community to develop their care of the most fragile, with research and learning methods which enable us to achieve what we...
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May 2019 - The consultation is now finished.
We have received 74 contributions from 34 countries, which have enriched the two proposals below. The contributions were presented to the United Nations...
