TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simon,Boris
TI  - Abbé Pierre and the ragpickers of Emmaus
AV  - HV4096.P3 S53
U1  - 362.5 
PY  - 1955///
CY  - London
PB  - Harvill Press
KW  - Pierre,
KW  - Poor
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
N2  - The Abbé Pierre has tackled in France the problems of homeless people in a new way. First he bought a house and sheltered a few down-and-out men. Then he organized his ragpickers, combed the dust-bins and the dumps, and then the sewers, and sold the salvage. He bought land, put up huts; bought more land, till he had housed 180 families; the scheme is growing daily. He has now achieved a responsible community of workers in which the poor help the poor. This is not a sociological blueprint but a gripping human story of the lives he has saved
ER  -