Memory and Knowledge.
Joseph Wresinski
1917 -1988
Joseph Wresinski was born to immigrant parents in a poor neighbourhood of Angers, France. He grew up in a family which suffered from chronic poverty and social exclusion.In 1946, he was ordained as a priest and served in industrial and rural parishes where, right from the beginning, he related to the most deprived families.
In 1956, he was assigned chaplain to 250 families in a emergency housing camp in Noisy-le-Grand, near Paris. The families lived in quonset (nissan) huts erected in a (…)
Writing in order to understand
Article that appeared in ATD Fourth World’s “Feuille de route”, issue 392, February 2010
Volunteer and Director of the International Joseph Wresinski Center, Jean Tonglet, attempts to explain in this article the meaning and profound reasons for writing in the battle against extreme poverty.Joseph Wresinski International Center
Purpose and mission
Father Joseph Wresinski, the founder of ATD Fourth World Movement, experienced extreme poverty during his youth and since then he has always been convinced that good intentions are not enough to overcome poverty and exclusion. A thorough knowledge of the most underprivileged families’ personal histories is also needed. Thus, he has always wanted to make this knowledge a priority for the Movement he had founded.The purpose of this approach is two fold :
·To allow to the most (…)
