People are always looking for the easiest answers to poverty. There are no easy answers. Practitioners of systemic...
Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A Focus on the Common Good @StJohnsU
A Focus on the Common Good. Homelessness and the Need for Systemic Change. That was the name of the conference...
A Call to Collective Impact and Thorough Formation #famvin400
Systemic change has got a "big sister" called collective impact. You've read about it often on .famvin. And formation...
Being Vincentian in Aleppo
Since 2012, the rebellion has become entrenched in Aleppo, the country’s former economic and industrial capital. The appalling humanitarian situation continues to worsen, with over 40,000 inhabitants from Aleppo province setting out on the road to the Turkish border....
ReNu Niagara: Community Outreach @NiagaraUniv
Niagara University is taking community outreach to a high-impact level. Nancy Fischer of the Buffalo News writes in a wonderful story and interview about Niagara University's Thomas Lowe. Thomas Lowe the director of ReNU Niagara, has been recognized for the leadership...
Journal of Vincentian Social Action
St. John's University has announced the launch of the Journal of Vincentian Social Action, a new contribution to Vincentian Scholarship. Available online through Digital Commons, the journal provides a scholarly forum for those working to address community-defined...
Why We Need to Evaluate #IamVincent
To say #IamVincent means we recognize the need to evaluate to improve our evangelization, service and formation of leaders. Vincent knew that we must always seek God's will, and evaluate: do we stay or do we go? Let’s give ourselves to God, Messieurs, to go throughout...
Korea:Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Together
Sr. Teresa Kotturan writes, "The 66th DPI/NGO Conference is the first in UN history to be held in Asia. This is organized in partnership with the NGO Community, the government of the Republic Korea and a national organizing committee." It is organized in the context...
Now on Social: Fighting media poverty-porn by tweeting beautiful images
Why might a Vincentian be tweeting (or using Instagram or Flickr, for that matter)? Images of poor people as victims, rather than agents of change, and pornographic images dominate the internet. Vincentians can join in a movement to do something about that. Just like:...
Cancel the planned USDA dumping of US peanuts on the Haitian market – procure locally
Subsistence farmers in Haiti and economic development experts say they are dismayed by a planned influx of American-grown peanuts from a U.S. agricultural surplus that they fear could undercut a vital cash crop in the impoverished Caribbean nation. (Dieu Nalio...
A New Molecular Biology Laboratory in Chokwe, Mozambique
On March 12, the inauguration of a new molecular biology laboratory was held, linked to the DREAM center managed by the Daughters of Charity. The Minister of Health was present at the inauguration. The DREAM center of Chokwe has a long history of treating those...
Warming Room For Homeless At Kyiv Railway Station
On November 24, 2015, a warm-up center was opened by DePaul Ukraine foundation with the support of administration of the city of Kiev railway station. Talks were going on for about a month. Thanks to God, we were able to open this Room, and now we can help people...
