Our actions
ATD Fourth World develops actions at three levels:
Local actions in poor neighborhoods to meet with the people who have difficult lives and to create links of mutual exchange. We use tools such as our culture and the sharing of knowledge to encourage these meetings.
Actions of citizen participation to allow the meeting and exchange between people from different backgrounds and places and to facilitate the recognition of the sharing of knowledge of those who live in poverty situations.
Actions at political level to hear the voice of the voiceless, challenge public opinion and governments so they can take action to eradicate poverty.
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Street Library
We are present all year long, in Edmond Hamelin's park in Hochelaga (Montreal), as a team of volunteers bring books (...)
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Festival of Learnings
Over four days of activities, at the end of each summer, the Festival of Learning gather people living in Hochelaga (...)
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Peoples’ Universities Fourth World
People’s Universities are spaces where people from different social backgrounds can come together to meet, discuss, and share ideas. The (...)
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Merging of Knowledge
Before 2002 ATD Fourth World ran two experimental programs on the merging of knowledge and practices called the Fourth World (...)
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Act 112 Committee
ATD Fourth World Movement participated actively in the citizen movement that at the end of the 1990s rallied for a (...)
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International Day to Eradicate Poverty
October 17 was officially recognized by the United Nations in 1992. The day was first celebrated in 1987 as ATD (...)
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