ATD Fourth World

Key papers on poverty

Education: Opportunities Lost The education system as experienced by families experiencing poverty

Produced with the full participation of children and families who are experiencing poverty, the report examines why children who have the most to gain from education are too often the ones failing in their schooling.

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Not too hard to reach

The 'not too hard to reach' leaflet describes the learning points from a pilot outreach project -The Doorstep Library- developed by ATD Fourth World in south London. It describes keys on how to develop tools to reach the most disadvantaged families.

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Valuing Children, Valuing Parents: Focus on the family in the fight against child poverty in Europe.

This study provides an insight into how families living in poverty can be supported to meet their needs and aspirations. It gives an extensive overview of reaserch and practice on poverty, child poverty, child protection and family support in 10 countries in Europe, including the UK.

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Finding Work:Tell Us The Secret

The book is an exercise in democracy, looking at unemployment issues from a new angle, bringing representative groups of the long term unemployed to discuss their ideas with experts in the field.

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Participation works: Involving People in Poverty in Policy Making

This report details the methods used to involve people with direct experience of poverty in the formulation, monitoring and evaluation of public policy. The book details the methods used in the Public Debate Project as well as the barriers to participation encountered. It makes general recommendations for anti-poverty work in the UK.

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What we say should change our lives.

This publication highlights the lessons learnt from ATD Fourth World's actions and exchanges in recent years. It explains why the involvement of people living in extreme poverty is vital, in what conditions it becomes possible, and what its impact is.

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Getting The Right Trainers: Enabling services users to train social work practitioners and students about the realities of family poverty in the UK.

The report describes how parents and their experiences of poverty and social work intervention contributed to the development of a training module for social work students and practitioners. The book offers a blueprint for engaging service users in the training of social care professionals.

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Talk With Us, Not At Us: How to Develop Partnerships Between Families In Poverty and Professionals

This book is a result of a 3 year project, it explores the concept of partnership between families living in poverty and members of the legal, health, social and community work professions who seek to help them.

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Action against poverty

Acting together for a
Europe of Dignity for All

At the time when the European Union incorporates new State members, delegates of families living in poverty and representatives from a variety of european institutions debate on how to act together for a Europe of dignity for all.

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Reaching the poorest

This book looks at ATD Fourth World’s work through case studies in Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Haiti, Peru, Uganda, Thailand and Canada, and their methods in reaching those living in extreme poverty.

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Voices for a Change: Finding solutions to the problem of poverty in London

This report, from a participatory peer research project, presents solutions and recommendations drawn from having undertaken research into the lives of Londoners living on low-incomes. The project, run by ATD Fourth World with the support of Child Poverty Action Group, involved training people living in poverty as peer researchers and to become spokespeople on behalf of those experiencing poverty.

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Artisans of Democracy

Twelve case studies that show how institutions, those living in poverty, and other members of society have succeeded in creating partnerships leading to changes benefiting the largest community.

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The Wresinki Approach – The poorest – partners in democracy

The book details the lives of people living in poverty in the UK, who ask that their experiences and efforts to overcome poverty be taken as the starting point in anti-poverty initiatives. Their accounts are cross-referenced with the recommendations of the Wresinski Report.

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Emergence from extreme
poverty

This manual describes the nature and the methods of the work of Full-Time volunteers and teams of ATD Fourth World.

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Participatory Approaches to Attacking Extreme Poverty

This book explores what type of knowledge is needed to fight extreme poverty. It is also part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.

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Policy Papers

- Inquiry into Child Poverty. Submission by ATD Fourth World to House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee.

- "Every Child Matters" green paper. Submission by ATD Fourth World on behalf of the England Anti-Poverty Platform of the UK Coalition Against Poverty.

- Poverty and Social Exclusion and their context within Article 10 of the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Submission by ATD Fourth World to the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

- Second UK National Action Plan on Social Inclusion. Submission by ATD Fourth World to the DWP.

- Commission on Families and the Wellbeing of Children. Submission by ATD Fourth World.

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Testimonial

Germaine

This is the story of a young American woman’s struggle through homelessness, health problems and violence, and how she develops a relationship with volunteers from ATD Fourth World.

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Out of the shadows

This poetry anthology was produced from a creative writing project that involved bringing professional writers and performers together with over one hundred individuals, aged from six to seventy five years old, who live in poverty in the UK.

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Family album

This is no ordinary album, it is a collection of photographs and art work showing the reality of poverty throughout the world – the harshness and also the happiness, achieved against great odds through captivity, love and friendship. Above all it is a testimony to the strength of family life, in all societies, for all ages.

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This is how we live: Listening to the Poorest Families

Very poor families from U.S.A., Guatemala, Thailand, Burkina Faso, and Germany tell their stories, stretching back over several generations. These stories form the basis for the discussion of key elements for better family policies put forth in the second half of the book.

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My heart is in this stone

This is inspired by the 5,000 little stones and messages sent by children from around the world during the Tapori Special Stones Campaign, and also includes the stories behind seven of them.

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Smiles Worldwide

Through photographs and interviews, Jean- Louis Saporito, with ATD Fourth World, introduces us to families encountered during his travels in Guatemala, Thailand, Lebanon and Poland. Smiles Worldwide is like a ray of sunshine on the strength and dignity of people overwhelmed by daily life and indifference.

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Human Rights

How poverty separates Parents
and Children: A challenge to
human rights

The book is a journey to different parts of the world and the misery faced by people living in poverty, as well as the realisation of how many hidden efforts parents and children make in order to stay together. In addition, it looks at the links between many policies that can be hard to harmonise at an international, local and national level.

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The very poor, living proof of the indivisibility of Human Rights

Translation of a contribution by Joseph Wresinski to a fundamental review of Human Rights by the National Advisory Committee on Human Rights (France).

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For children

As good as anyone

The book was written by children during the Fourth World Movement Street Libraries and looks at the life of Martin Luther King, JR.

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My heart is in this stone: Germaine Russell

Inspired by the 5,000 little stones and messages sent by children from around the world during Tapori Special Stones campaign, and includes the stories behind seven of them.

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Tapori mini-books

Children of courage. True illustrated stories from around the world. Suitable for 8 years and older.

15 pages (14x10.6cm)
£1.00 / £7.00

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Joseph Wresinski

Blessed are you the poor

A fresh revealing reading of the Gospel through the eyes of the very poor.

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The poor are the church

Father Joseph Wrensiki relates what he and the members of the ATD Fourth World Movement have learned from the poor, and reflects on what it means to give to the priority to the poor amongst us.

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Father Joseph Wresinski:
Founder ATD Fourth World Movement

The life and work of Joseph Wresinski, the founder of the ATD Fourth World movement.

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Father Joseph Wresinski:
Voice of the poorest

The first biography of Father Joseph Wresinski, recounting the life and thinking of the founder of ATD Fourth World. The author, Alwine de Vos van Steenwijk, was a career diplomat who joined Father Joseph in 1961 and helped him gain international recognition for the organisation.

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