Taking the Country at its Word

Fanchette Clement-Fanelli

The Writing is enormously instructive as it reveals the methodology, the human relations and visionary spirit of this undertaking. It's not a history lesson yer it follows the context of the country and the neighborhoods in which families live in poverty. Clement-Fanelli introduces us to a large "cast of characters" involved in this movement-building process. Her portrayals may help people to see in retrospect the role they played at the time. Readers will see how the dialogue with the Unites States impacted a movement that was concieved, from the begining, as a world movement.

On a personal level, with Fanchette Clement-Fanelli we meet the young women who fought to stay in the U.S. and, with others, to build a modern movement designed to last in a country where change is constant. This book is a tribute to the soul of the country seen through the eyes of and with the expectations of a man who grew up in poverty, Jospeh Wrensinski.

Susie M. Devins

Deputy Director

International Movement ATD Fourth World