This past October, Category 5 hurricane Matthew struck our brother* country of Haiti, leaving behind death and...
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Niagara Student Spends her Summer Volunteering at School in Haiti #IamVincent
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | October 16, 2016 | News | 0 Comments
Report: Devastation of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti
by Javier F. Chento | October 14, 2016 | Disasters and Responses, News | 0 Comments
Racial Bias in Media: The Case of Hurricane Matthew
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | October 11, 2016 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
Missionaries @NiagaraUniv are Home!
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | August 31, 2016 | News | 0 Comments
Niagara Student Spends her Summer Volunteering at School in Haiti #IamVincent
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 16, 2016 | News
The poorest of the poor in Haiti have dreams too, and Brianna Smith was there to support them. Smith, 20, a...
Report: Devastation of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 14, 2016 | Disasters and Responses, News
We have received a report on the devastation of Hurricane Mathew in Haiti, written by Sister Zelinda Caversan,...
Vincentian Haiti news – ZAFEN partners with KIVA!
by John Freund, CM | Jun 19, 2014 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
We are proud to announce that Zafèn has become a field partner with Kiva, a crowdfunding platform supporting a worldwide network of microfinance institutions alleviating poverty through business loans. This collaboration introduces Kiva’s 1 million users to Haitian...
Zafen Unleashing Haiti’s Prosperity
by John Freund, CM | Feb 13, 2014 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Zafèn, Crowdfunding Platform for Haitian Entrepreneurs, announces Winner of Unleash Haiti's Prosperity Contest Djennie (Jane) Dorvilier of Montreal, Canada is the winner of the "It’s Our Business to Unleash Haiti’s Prosperity" contest. Launched by Zafèn, a...
A Vincentian fish story from Haiti
by John Freund, CM | Feb 10, 2014 | International Association of Charities - Ladies of Charity, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Vincentian Family Fish Farm in Central Plateau Breaks Ground Nine acres of carefully selected land in Haiti’s Central Plateau will become the new home for 25,000 baby tilapia, or “fingerlings,” in early 2014 as the Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative launches a...
Pope’s Lenten message – poverty (Haiti?)
by John Freund, CM | Feb 2, 2014 | Pope, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
According to the Catholic News Service Pope Francis has chosen the theme, “He became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich,” for this year’s Lenten message, said a Vatican statement Jan. 31. The theme comes from a verse from St. Paul’s Second Letter to...