Sharing Experiences Worldwide
Permanent Forum on Extreme Poverty in the World
“So that no one will feel alone and powerless faced with extreme poverty, and so that no effort will be lost.” Joseph Wresinski, Founder
The Permanent Forum is a network of individuals and groups committed in various ways alongside populations living in poverty. It is facilitated by the International Movement ATD Fourth World.
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Letter to Friends Around The World March 2013 – No. 82
These families are struggling with the urgency created by poverty, demanding support for their efforts and plans to open up a future for their children through schooling, healthcare, housing and culture. If our societies were to adopt them as their guiding light, aiming for economic development that leaves nobody behind, they would launch new policies. They would at last decide to invest in the growth of our true wealth, by enabling each child, youngster and adult to develop their potential in order to build a world for all, with all. To take up this challenge, dear friends and correspondents of the Forum on Overcoming Extreme Poverty, you have knowledge and a vision to share.Talk Without Fear And Finally Reflect Together
Letter to Friends Around The World December 2012 – No. 81
In a world confronted with so many challenges, there is one resource that remains untapped: the know-how of people who are resisting extreme poverty and trying with all their might to protect their children from its effects. Their history of resistance is founded on their sense of dignity. They have inherited it from those who have preceded them throughout the centuries, in the face of constant deprivation and humiliation, treated as though they were no longer human beings. Through this resistance, they have gained an irreplaceable experience and know-how – a know-how that is not recognized by our societies. Instead, the latter continue to ignore that those who struggle under duress to survive day by day in the ‘red zones’ of this world possess a knowledge that would be useful in identifying the best way forward towards a development that is truly sustainable, a peace that is enjoyed by all,As Though We Were Wiped Off the Face of the Earth
Letter to Friends Around The World June 2012 – No. 80
Extreme poverty is violence - Breaking the silence - Pathways towards peace constitutes both the core and the overriding theme of research undertaken by ATD Fourth World in 25 countries.The following five articles provide an insight into people’s contribution to the project and their experience of taking part A participant from Senegal tells us about the courage that this project has given him. In the Philippines, people are having to resist on a daily basis the violence imposed upon them by their housing conditions. Whilst in Lebanon we take the paths that create peace day after day. We see in Guatemala how a project is able to build trust. Lastly from Spain, we are all invited to act with the poorest so we can change our world in crisis.
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