FRANCAISAide à toute détresse Quart Monde - History
1980-1989
-Since 1981, Haiti: despite political troubles, ATD Quart Monde manages to keep a team of international volunteers running, without any disruption, first in rural areas in Fonds des Nègres, then in town, in Port au Prince.
-1982-2002, Côte d’Ivoire: starting from a medical care’s project in a penal camp in Bouaké, ATD Quart Monde develops educational, spiritual, craft and sport activities that bring back hope and dignity to prisoners by rehabilitating them in the eyes of society. In September 1989 a House of Arts and Family is inaugurated; it prepares prisoners for reinsertion in civilian life. The 2002 rebellion against president Laurent Gbagbo compels the program to be interrupted for a while.
-Since 1983, Central African Republic: after working in the north in Marcunda, near the border with Tchad, an ATD team deals with street children in the capital city, Bangui, and has to be repatriated because of political troubles in 1997. In 2002, a volunteer goes back to Bangui to work in a health centre.
-1985, France: ATD creates an association, Terre et Homme de Demain (“Tomorrow’s Earth and Man”), which sends volunteers abroad to implement programs administrated by the so-called Sciences and Services Teams.
-17th of October 1987, France: in front of the Trocadéro in Paris, ATD launches “an international day against poverty”, officially recognised by the UN in December 1992.
-1989, Switzerland: after taking part to the international year of children in 1979, ATD contributes in drafting the International Convention on the Rights of the Child at the United Nations.
