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New presentation on VinFormation: Service vs. Justice.  Do we do works of service? Do we do works of Justice? Ever wondered about the relationship and the difference? Related FAMVIN Posts:Sister of Charity speaks out on WalmartIf Vincent were given a $1,000 to distribute…SVDP achieves “consultative status” at UNMember of Vincentian Family honored in CanadaDaughters of [...]

Scott Fina offers a contrasting view to David Brooks recent New York Times editorial about the role of poverty in Haiti’s suffering from its earthquake, recently circulated over FamVin. Below he writes “My point?  Haiti (like Katrina) is indeed much more a story of poverty than a story of natural disaster, as David Brooks states.   [...]

“Once I asked her why she chose this specialty (infectious diseases). She fixed me with her direct gaze, looking at me as if I had asked a really strange question: “Because the poor are disproportionately affected by infectious disease,” she said. “That is where a Sister of Charity should be.” Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN [...]

India is planning to produce a laptop computer for the knockdown price of about $20, having pioneered last year the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, for Rs100,000 ($2,050) a vehicle. Financial Times Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

Today marks the first ever university-based unit of the the Ladies of Charity USA (LCUSA) affiliation of some 35 administrators, faculty and staff of SJU as members of the LCUSA. See the Vincentian Encyclopedia for more background on the Ladies of Charity and the international group  (AIC) of which it is a member. Related FAMVIN [...]

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.” Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

“I didn’t want to calculate my time in dollars,” a Colorado Vincentian Volunteer told a newspaper columnist. The columnist talked to volunteer who is taking a “gap year” from her studies and to another who worked as a commodities and stock trader before finding something that “feeds my soul.” Read the column. Related FAMVIN Posts:No [...]

The manager of a Society of Saint Vincent de Paul thrift store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin USA says the number of people looking for used clothing and furniture at the store has increased. “You look at the economy and you say, ‘Where are we going?’ It’s scary,” she says. Read the story. Related FAMVIN Posts:SSVDP President [...]

It’s an old garage with a restaurant permit. On May 18, 1983 the Saint Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen opened in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania USA. Since then, every day it has served a midday meal: 40 on that first day; up to 400 on a day, since, for a monthly average of about 10,000 meals. Read [...]

CBS News has begun a series about how working people are struggling with hard choices: heat the house or gas the car or buy groceries. In this installment, the reporter’s guide is a volunteer at a the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul food pantry in Greenville, Mississippi USA. Read the story. Related FAMVIN Posts:No [...]