A new book published by the Lutterworth Press, and available at this link, recounts the biography of one of the co-founders of ATD Fourth World, Mary Rabagliati (1942-1992), who was born in Guildford.

At the age of 20, Mary quit a secretarial job in London to move to an emergency housing camp in France without running water or any sanitation facilities. It was 1962 when, amongst that bleak squalor and deprivation, she began a lifelong commitment to anti-poverty work and fighting for the human rights of people on the margins of society, working towards a vision that no one should have to live a life trapped by poverty.

She joined fellow trailblazer Joseph Wresinski to build the foundations for ATD Fourth World to develop into an international human rights movement. Particularly committed to the girls and women whose horizons were drastically curtailed by hardship, early motherhood, and domestic violence, Mary’s work took her across continents: living alongside families in poverty; speaking out at the United Nations; and helping to spark a joyful revolution for social justice.

To learn more about the book

To read a blog post about Joyful Revolution by Kate Evans, author of the Donna Morris crime series, please click here.

There is also an article about this book on ATD Fourth World’s international website, here.

And at this link, you can see the launch event at the London School of Economics.