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atdquart
Basic
- Family name
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- Given name(s)
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- Organisation
- International ATD Fourth World Movement
- Acronym
- ATD
- Mailing address
- Av. Général Leclerc 107
- City
- Pierrelaye
- Country
- France
- Office phone
- +33 1 30 36 22 11
- Fax number
- +33 1 30 37 65 12
- Website
- http://www.atd-quartmonde.org
Organisation
- Working languages
French and English, some Spanish, Dutch and German
- Publications
- Journal Jeunesse Quart Monde - monthly, published in English and French
- Challenge Jeunes- Video made in 1995, a personal account by five underprivileged young people
- 'La tolérance vécue en milieu défavorisé' - Study published by the Council of Europe as part of the campaign against racism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and intolerance
- 'A nous de jouer'- board game created by young people aimed at discovering training and vocational life, human rights and workers' rights
- 'Aucun jeune sans avenir - ou comment ouvrir les portes de la qualification professionnelle et de l'emploi à tous les jeunes?' Report of seminars held in France- Brief history
The International Movement Quart Monde Jeunesse unites young people who have directly experienced poverty and exclusion as well as others wanting to fight it. 15 years of campaigning with young people in council estates and run-down areas have shown clearly the will of these young people to establish their own identity. In France in 1968-69 a team from the Movement ATD Quart Monde working in the Greater Paris area set up a youth housing project with local young people, which reconciled rival gangs. Exchange projects were then set up, and visits to Europe and the United States were organised to study other areas of urban exclusion. The first meeting of the International Movement Quart Monde Jeunesse was held in May 1973.
300 young people representing six European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK) and the United States attended. Since then, with the support of the European Youth Foundation, an international meeting has been held every year. Experiences are shared and issues such as work, human rights, youth and training are discussed. Quart Monde Jeunesse is a non-governmental organisation which enjoys consultative status with the UN, UNESCO, UNICEF, the ILO and the Council of Europe.
- Objectives
- Give young people the possibility to participate in cultural, spiritual, socio-economic, educational events.
- Allow young people to fight poverty and exclusion.
- Allow young people to contribute to the European question and challenges.
- Develop study sessions amongst young people and children in underprivileged areas.- Activities
- Organisation of international workshops at the international centre of the ATD Quart Monde Movement, for young people 18 and over, and young people between 15 and 25
- Organisation of the international youth meeting
- Seminars and workshops- Structure
- ATD Quart Monde Jeunesse (international branch of the movement)
- International ATD Quart Monde Jeunesse Commission (discusses legal issues once a year)
- National branches (represented in the International Commission)
- Bureau (elected by Commission once every three years)
Membership
- Membership type
- Full member
- Organisation type
- INGYO
History
- User for
- 47 weeks 4 days
