Promoting access to knowledge, culture and education.

We start activities aimed at stimulating everybody’s access to knowledge, culture and education without usurping the position of schools or cultural institutions. We create activities that show that every child can learn, everybody has some knowledge to share and some skill to use. We try to build bridges between people in poverty and institutions, particularly schools.

Street Libraries and Doorstop Libraries

Street libraries or doorstop libraries provide a real opportunity to share amazing knowledge and ideas. The aim: to bring wonderful books to those very places where children and their families are living in extreme poverty, to set up genuine cultural events right in the heart of these housing estates deemed the poorest, these shantytowns, these areas which have been completely marginalised.

Street Libraries in Poland

"Books are magic"

Children meet up through poetry

Interview with Nathalie Gendre, full-time Volunteer

"Children meet up through poetry", co-written by Nathalie Gendre and Yves-Marie Fournier, has just been published (in French) by Editions Quart Monde (Fourth World Movement’s Publishing arm). It illustrates the experience of a writing workshop that brought together primary and secondary school children in the Antrain canton in rural France, during a five-year period.
 
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Wherever men and women are condemned to live in extreme poverty, human rights are violated.
To come together to ensure that these rights be respected is our solemn duty.

Joseph Wresinski