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Half a million years ago or so, a Columbian Mammoth dropped a tusk on property that is owned today by St. Vincent de Paul in San Diego. The tusk was discovered last month in the course of excavation for new construction of apartments for the working poor. Read more, if only to satisfy yourself that [...]

Lismore Library in Australia offers a program of “living books”, people who make themselves available for personal dialogue. June Crawford, a Saint Vincent de Paul Society advocate for the homeless, is about to make her third appearance on the list this year. Read about her title, “Who Moved My Roof?” Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN [...]

Oxfam has made available a .pdf of a map of areas affected by the quake; it was provided to them by the Sistema Nacional de Defensa Civil Perú. Also, Catholic News Service has a round-up of stories of life after the disaster. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

Finding a replacement wheel for a shopping cart, serving up a “Happy Birthday” strawberry pie and, yes, arranging burials when there are no other family or friends. Lorraine Moriarty of the San Mateo Saint Vincent de Paul Society says there’s a title for her work: human being. Read the story. Related FAMVIN Posts:SSVDP President General [...]

Bishop Guido Breña López of the Diocese of Ica is quoted extensively in a report about the crisis in Perú; read the story. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

Two years after Katrina, efforts continue to rebuild staff and facilities to provide health care in New Orleans. The Daughters of Charity Health Center-St. Cecilia has received $3 million from the United Health Foundation to become a model “center of excellence” for primary care in a community setting. Read the article and visit the center’s [...]

A page with comprehensive information about last Wednesday’s earthquake is developing at Wikipedia. Take a look. See, too, the brief article on Pisco, which includes a photo of the Plaza des Armas with the church, now destroyed, in the background. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

Ozanam House, a short-term crisis accommodation for men who are homeless, is mentioned in a piece in today’s The Age (Melbourne, Australia): No way home. The writer poses the question, “Why do places like Ozanam House seem to have to exist? Are we just compounding the problem by running such places?” Read the article Related [...]

More than 1800 chronically homeless military veterans live in Lane County, Oregon. VetLIFT, a project of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, works with participants on self-identified goals for housing, job skills, and self-determination. Now the program has received a $175,000 (USD) housing grant. Take a look at the VetLIFT site and [...]

An interview with Sister Anna Wiwik Soepraptiwi D.C., superior of the Indonesian Province of the Daughters of Charity, recently appeared in Indian Catholic: the most important thing is not how many people we serve or how much service we do, but how many people we invite to serve. Read the interview Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related [...]