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Smiles Worldwide
	NEW!!! Through photographs and brief interviews, photographer Jean-Louis Saporito, shares the aspirations and struggles of families dealing with daily poverty in the United States, Guatemala, Burkina Faso, Lebanon, Poland and Thailand. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to Fourth World Movement programs promoting encounters and partnerships among people of different backgrounds. more Price $25 Add to Order Form
Germaine
	This is the story of a young womans struggle for education though homelessness, health problems, and neighborhood violence. more Price $5 Add to Order Form
Artisans of Democracy
	Twelve case studies that show how very poor people, other members of society, and institutions have succeeded in creating alliances. Their partmnerships have led to changes in the institutions, with benefits reaching the larger community. The book then explores implications for anyone concerned by the persistence of poverty and looking for ways to do something about it. more Price $24.50 Add to Order Form
Family Album
	This book is a collection of photographs, artwork, and texts showing the reality of poverty throughout the world the harshness and also the happiness, achieved against great odds through creativity, love and friendship. The texts are in English, French, Spanish, German, and Dutch. more Price $19 Add to Order Form
The Human Face of Poverty
	This is the history of the first fifteen years of the Fourth World Movements involvement with the poorest families in New York City. This book provides an intensely human picture of chronic poverty in late twentieth century urban America. Through the eyes of volunteers who lived and worked in one New York neighborhood for a decade and a half, it makes us come understand the poor people, not as statistical abstractions or faceless objects of pity or contempt. more Price $12.50 Add to Order Form
From Darkness to Light
	This film follows the preparation of the US delegations to a meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations . Some of the delegates talk about their lives and about what they expect from this meeting at the UN. Extracts from the meeting in Geneva are shown, as well as the dialogue between the delegates and the General Secretary of the United Nations, Mr. Boutros-Ghali. The film ends back in New York where the delegates discuss what happened and Fourth World volunteers talk about what such a meeting represents. more Price $15 Add to Order Form
This is How We Live: Listening to the Poorest Families
	Very poor families from the U.S.A. , Guatemala , Thailand , Burkina Faso , and Germany tell their stories, stretching back over several generations. These stories form the basis for the discussion of key elements for better family policies put forth in the second half of the book. more Price $12 Add to Order Form
Out of the Shadows
	This is a poetry anthology produced from a creative writing project that involved professional writers and performers with one hundred individuals from six to seventy-five years old, who are experiencing poverty in Great Britain . more Price $25 Add to Order Form