BB 11th Coy Team 2 ( Poverty)
Transcript of BB 11th Coy Team 2 ( Poverty)
FATHER JOSEPH WRESINSKI
Founder of International Movement ATD Fourth World.
Launched the International Day of the Eradication of Poverty.
Member of the French Economic and Social Council.
INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT ATD FOURTH WORLD
Which aimed towards the eradication of chronic
poverty through a
human-rights based approach.
The International Movement ATD Fourth World
conducted many
activities. (E.g. : To promote access to culture and
education. )
WHY WAS THE FOUNDATION FORMED?
Fr Joseph Wresinski was born to a poor immigrant family and
grew up living in great poverty and social exclusion.
He did not want anyone to be at a disadvantage because of their poverty.
He started to make the organization when he was assigned to be
a chaplain of 250 families placed in an emergency housing camp
in France
He noticed that the families lived in quonset huts erected in a muddy field with just
four public spigots providing water for all of them.
He did not like the kitchen soup kitchen there, and therefore closed it, stating that
“it is not so much food or clothes that these people are in need of, but dignity, and
to not have to depend on other people's goodwill”.
ATD’S PRINCIPLES
The fight to eradicate poverty - a human
rights approach
-Rather than distributing emergency aid, ATD Fourth World
seeks to create sustainable cultural projects designed together
with people living in great poverty. It attempts to change the way
society sees people living in poverty and social exclusion. "We are
not here to manage poverty, but to destroy it", said Joseph
Wresinski.
Priority given to people living in the most
extreme situations
of poverty
-ATD Fourth World works with individuals, families and groups
struggling with poverty, in urban and rural areas. It breaks with
traditional top-down ways of dealing with chronic poverty, by enabling
those with first-hand experience of poverty and exclusion to meet
policy makers, researchers and others on equal ground to pool their
expertise in the struggle against poverty.