Assisting families in poverty

The International Movement ATD Fourth World has three major lines of action: (1) Grass roots presence and involvement among very poor families and communities, in housing estates, slums and shanty towns; (2) Research into poverty undertaken with the people concerned (3) Campaigning and mobilizing public opinion at local, national and international level.

1. Supporting families
2. Assisting those in poverty
3. Assisting disadvantaged families

1. Using child labour when families are very poor
2. Upgrading settlements and urban slums
3. Sponsoring a grandparent
4. Reuniting families
5. Improving literacy amongst the destitute
6. Establishing community banks
7. Assisting those in conditions of environmental poverty

1. Using tree-based subsistence farming
2. Studying causes of family poverty
3. Researching effects of poor living conditions
4. Meeting biomass energy needs of the poor with re-afforestation

1. Family poverty

1. Poverty