FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

This week’s featured project, the story of of a woman named Belaynish, represents a small window into the numerous diverse works of the Daughters of Charity as they collaborate with local people in villages and communities around the globe as they match funding partners with their vital projects and programs.
The Daughters of Charity are overseeing year three [...]

“You have to start somewhere”  and college students teach the Daughters and the SVDP one place to start for systemic change.
“Sex Trafficking in Macon, Georgia?” is the lead story in the current joint newsletter of the Daughters of Charity and Social Justice Committee USA . It is an excellent illustration of fulling their mission… “We promote social [...]

A fun activity to start a conversation about immigration with your leaders or allies. Northwest Federation of Community Organizations (NWFCO} created this board game as a tool for grassroots organizations to use. Just click on the game parts below and print them out and you´re ready to go.

The definitive biography, Elizabeth Bayley Seton 1774-1821, originated from a doctoral dissertation written nearly sixty years ago by Annabelle Melville, at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Little did she anticipate that two years later in 1951, Charles Scribner’s Sons would publish her manuscript as Elizabeth Bayley Seton 1774-1821.

Systemic change is urgently needed when 130 million girls and women worldwide are currently living with the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) according to the World Health Organization.  In Africa, about three million girls are at risk for FGM annually (WHO, 2008).
Girls are usually not given a choice whether to engage in this practice; [...]

Three participants of the Daughters of Charity General Assembly  present their impressions in French, Spanish and English respectively.  The lead story on their international site presents interviews with Sr. Marie-Bernard Giffard, Sr. Maria Esther Seoane Sanchez and Sr. Marie Raw. There is also a direct YouTube link and links to their YouTube Assembly playlist.

The June Affiliates Newsletter is jam packed with 8 pages of wide-ranging material including  announcements and timelines.Download in pdf format.

On Monday, the members of the General Assembly elected the new General Councillors of the Company. The General Council, therefore, now consists of the following:
Sr Kathleen APPLER, American
Sr Christa BAUER, Austrian, re-elected
Sr Zofia DANISCAKOVA, Slovakian, re-elected
Sr Madeline HARA, Japanese
Sr Françoise PETIT, French
Sr Rosa Maria MIRO MIRO, Spanish, re-elected
Sr Rosa Maria NAPOLITANO, Italian
Sr Neghesti MICHAEL, [...]

Many people think that garbage is utterly useless, fit only to be thrown away. But as the world marks World Environment Day on June 5, Sister Anna Wiwik Soepraptiwi says that is not the proper way to manage waste.

Sisters and a layworker sorting waste materials

According to the provincial superior of the Daughters of Charity [...]

The 14th video from the General Assemnly of the Daughters of Charity in Paris has been posted.

Celebration moments after the re-election of Sr. Evelyne, DC

Sister Felicia Mazzola, D.C., Director of International Project Services, talks about the scope of projects which have emerged from the local people with the support of the Daughters, living and working within their communities around the world.
As such many of their projects embody one or other aspects of systemic change, during coming months we will [...]

To celebrate the first anniversary of the beatification of Sr. Marta Anna Wiecka DC, the Daughters of Charity prepared an all-night vigil at Jasna Góra Shrine in Czestochowa, Poland, on 24th -25th May 2009. As a result of volunteering to take the place of someone assigned to disinfect a patient’s room she contracted Typhoid and [...]

Thousands have watched  the videos posted from the Daughters of Charity General Assembly in Paris. The earliest videos are rapidly  approaching 10,000 viewings each on YouTube. Currently all the videos are available via links to YouTube on their international site. Two more have been added today – numbers  9 and 10. The latest [...]

Enlightened Charity: The Holistic Nursing Care, Education, and Advices Concerning the Sick of Sister Matilda Coskery, D.C. (1799-1870)
“It has been a journey of discovery to learn about the significance of the contributions of the Sisters and Daughters of Charity in establishing nursing in North America and nurturing its growth and development,” … “Sister Matilda Coskery [...]