Used Book – Richesse de la pauvreté, Soeur Emmanuelle, Philippe Asso

Poverty is a global scandal. Most of us tacitly accept this state of affairs, but some rebel and decide to act. Sister Emmanuelle is one of them. For thirty years, she has chosen to fight, all over the world, with and for the poorest. Here, she recounts her journey, strewn with joys, failures, and questions. Like this incomprehensible paradox: in Cairo, where they own nothing, the ragpickers of the shantytowns are flourishing; in our affluent Europe, complaints are commonplace and we forget even the simple joy of existing. Can poverty also be a source of enrichment? Poverty of riches, richness of poverty... Sister Emmanuelle seeks to make sense of this apparent contradiction, in which perhaps lies the secret of the joy of living.