Poverty 11th Coy Team 1
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Poverty Done By: Xavier Tan, Wei Xiang, Nick, Elisha Santosh
Transcript of Poverty 11th Coy Team 1
PovertyDone By: Xavier Tan, Wei Xiang,
Nick, Elisha Santosh
Father Joseph Wresinski
O Founder of International Movement ATD Fourth World.
O Launched the International Day of the Eradication of Poverty.
O Member of the French Economic and Social Council.
International Movement ATD Fourth World
O Which aimed towards the eradication of chronic poverty through a human-rights based approach.
O The International Movement ATD Fourth World conducted many activities. (E.g. : To promote access to culture and education. )
Why was the foundation formed?
O Fr Joseph Wresinski was born to a poor immigrant family and grew up living in great poverty and social exclusion.
O He did not want anyone to be at a disadvantage because of their poverty.
O 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
O 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.
O 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 PrinciplesO 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.
O 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.
CreditsO Wikipedia.com
