1. Poverty
Done By: Xavier Tan, Wei Xiang, Nick,
Elisha Santosh

2. Father Joseph Wresinski
O Founder of International Movement ATD Fourth
World.
O Launched the International Day of the Eradication of
Poverty.
O Member of the French Economic and Social Council.

3. International Movement ATD Fourth World
O Which aimed towards the eradication
of chronic poverty through a
human-rights based approach.
O The International Movement ATD Fourth
World conducted many
activities. (E.g. : To promote access to
culture and education. )

4. Why was the foundation
formed?
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Fr Joseph Wresinski was born to a poor immigrant family and
grew up living in great poverty and social exclusion.
He did not want anyone to be at a disadvantage because of their
poverty.
He started to make the organization when he was assigned to be
a chaplain of 250 families placed in an emergency housing camp
in France
He noticed that the families lived in quonset huts erected in a
muddy field with just four public spigots providing water for all of
them.
He did not like the kitchen soup kitchen there, and therefore closed
it, stating that “it is not so much food or clothes that these people
are in need of, but dignity, and to not have to depend on other
people's goodwill”.

5. ATD’s Principles
O The fight to eradicate poverty - a
human rights approach
-Rather than distributing emergency aid, ATD Fourth World seeks
to create sustainable cultural projects designed together with people
living in great poverty. It attempts to change the way society sees people
living in poverty and social exclusion. "We are not here to manage
poverty, but to destroy it", said Joseph Wresinski.

6. O Priority given to people living in the
most extreme situations
of poverty
-ATD Fourth World works with individuals, families and groups struggling
with poverty, in urban and rural areas. It breaks with traditional top-down
ways of dealing with chronic poverty, by enabling those with first-hand
experience of poverty and exclusion to meet policy makers, researchers
and others on equal ground to pool their expertise in the struggle against
poverty.

7. Credits
O Wikipedia.com