BB 11th Coy Team 2 ( Poverty)

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POVERTY Done By: Jeremy Chang, Jia Xin, Gabriel Wong, Brandon Cheong

Transcript of BB 11th Coy Team 2 ( Poverty)

POVERTY

Done By: Jeremy Chang, Jia Xin, Gabriel Wong,

Brandon Cheong

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.

CREDITS

Wikipedia.com