FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

The letter from  José Ramón Díaz-Torremocha  focuses on three things: A) What do you want of me Lord?; B): Open and in Defense of Christian Values and C): Systemic Change

The fifteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Gene Smith writes:
Systemic Change Strategy 15: Promote engagement in the political process, through civic education of individuals and communities.
Start with these facts: four hundred people banished because of leprosy build [...]

Successfully addressing poverty requires that “people living in poverty must have a voice in deciding their own destiny, fighting for rights and justice in their own society, and holding states and the private sector to account.” It also requires that states act as effective managers and agents of change.

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The fourteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Fr Robert P. Maloney, CM writes:
The fourth people-oriented strategy formulated by the members of the Commission for Promoting Systemic Change states:
Promote learning processes in which the members of [...]

On 13th June 2008, around 120 members of the Vincentian Family here in Britain gathered in Westminster Cathedral Hall, Central London to hear keynote addresses from Fr Robert Maloney CM and Sr Ellen Flynn DC. They highlighted the work of the International Commission for promoting Systemic Change, explained its mandate given to the [...]

The fourteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Fr Joseph P. Foley, C.M. writes:
Systemic Change Strategy 13: Construct structural and institutional models where communities can identify their resources and needs, make informed decisions, and exchange information and effective [...]

UGIVE, a Cincinnati-based nonprofit organization “makes philanthropy relevant, fun and interesting to the younger generation by encouraging students to find their passion through volunteering.”

The thirteenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Sister Ellen Flynn, D.C. writes:
Systemic Change Strategy 12: Educate, train and offer spiritual formation to all participants in the project.
One of the clearest examples of spiritual formation [...]

Microplace, an online brokerage service that enables people to make investments that earn a return while empowering the poor to work their way out of poverty, has launched its “Small Change. Big Change” campaign, designed to turn spare nickels and quarters into agents of change.

The twelfth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Gene Smith writes:
Systemic Change Strategy 12: Be transparent by inviting participation in budget preparation, by seeking comments on financial reports and by maintaining careful controls over money management.
Several [...]

“The new idea is to lift people out of poverty by giving them tools to improve their incomes. Their lives are changed not by handout aid, but through design,” says the curator of a new exhibit at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Jim Kehoe, Snohomish County, Washington USA executive director of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, also serves on the Society’s national disaster relief committee. For the county’s newspaper he described what the Society is doing to help in Myanmar. Read the article; visit the US Society’s online donation site.

The tenth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. The Rev. Fr. Norberto L. Carcellar, C. M. writes:
Systemic Change Strategy 11 : Involve the poor themselves, including the young and women, at all stages: identification of needs, planning, implementation, [...]

How to deal with the fact that 80% of sub-Saharan Africa’s food is grown by women, but women have little access to credit or owership rights to land? One answer: The African Woman Food Farmer Initiative.