The International Leadership Team’s best wishes for 2010
May 2010 be a year in which we are continually moving forward alongside children, young people and adults in our society who are living out new solidarities in the face of adversity. They are hoping for us to innovate ways of building one human community that leaves no one behind and that compromises neither respect for human dignity nor respect for the planet.
Eugen Brand Isabelle Perrin Diana Skelton
All too often, we speak of chronic poverty as if it were a small setback in the progress of the history of humanity. We are more concerned about the risk of slowing down this progress than about the risk of leaving a person behind.
People living in deep poverty call for the creation of a new world just as we do. Their struggle’s goal is to transform our societal structures so that honor, justice, love and truth become the foundations upon which all people, including the poorest, can enjoy their full rights. If people living in persistent poverty question us and push us to question ourselves, it is not because they are asking us to slow down our progress. On the contrary, they are pushing us to go faster and farther, to have a broader vision and to be more ambitious than we are.
Joseph Wresinski - 1968
