There are many factors at work which frustrate efforts at systemic change. One of them is racism. Toure, a regular...
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‘Let Us Witness that God is Alive’ – The story of Mukta Gope
by Ringemit Lepcha, SCN | January 16, 2023 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses | 1 Comment
St. Vincent’s Solutions For the Homeless of His Day
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | November 5, 2020 | Collaboration, Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Reflections, Systemic change, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments
Vincent and Louise de Marillac were deeply committed to the education and moral formation of young people living on the streets or in dire conditions.
A New Way of Thinking– A Par-Recycle Works Story
by .famvin | June 28, 2020 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses | 1 Comment
PAR-Recycle Works is a nonprofit electronics recycler in Philadelphia, USA. They have important stories to tell. Here’s one of them.
What Did St. Vincent Do For the Homeless of His Day?
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | February 27, 2020 | Collaboration, Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Reflections, Systemic change, Vincentian Family | 2 Comments
Vincent and Louise de Marillac were deeply committed to the education and moral formation of young people living on the streets or in dire conditions.
@NiagaraUniv to Host Symposium on Resettlement
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 7, 2017 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
On Sept. 8-9, 2017, the New York Folklore Society, a statewide nonprofit arts organization supporting folklife and...
Participate: Knowledge from the Margins for Systemic Change
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 6, 2017 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
For those working to implement processes of systemic change, one of the keys is to understand how marginalized people...
Just Love – Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth
by John Freund, CM | Jan 21, 2016 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
JustLove is an e-publication of the Office of Peace, Justice and Ecological Integrity of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth. This month features a report on the recent gathering Where Many Rivers Meet: Gathering of JPIC Committees of Federation Congregations in...
Grow your own program with those in poverty
by John Freund, CM | Jan 16, 2016 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Systemic change
West Virginia Conference allows people in need to Grow your own The saying goes, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” The St. Louise de Marillac Conference, also known as the Conference of Southern West...
Saint Vincent de Paul in helping the poor save taxpayers £11million per year
by John Freund, CM | Jan 16, 2016 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Research, by economists Oxera, shows that the Saint Vincent de Paul Society is helping taxpayers save £11million per year, and found that the visits made to the isolated and lonely by the Saint Vincent de Paul volunteers, helped improve their mental health, helped...
The stress of poverty and our role as advocates
by John Freund, CM | Jan 15, 2016 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
In "Behavioral Science and the Stress of Poverty: Dan Torrington, SVDP Western Region Voice of the Poor Leader writes "Once we as Vincentians begin to really appreciate the mental and emotional stress of scarcity, as well as the physical toll poverty exacts, we know...
What It’s Like To Be Homeless and Lose Everything
by John Freund, CM | Jan 15, 2016 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A great vinFormation resource teaches what it’s like to be homeless and lose everything. Hobson's choice* is the literary way of saying one has no choice at all. The only option you have is the one that is being offered to you. We have all found ourselves in such...
SSVP: A Voice for the Poor in Ireland
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jan 8, 2016 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Slow economic recovery in Ireland has pushed the leader of the Society in Ireland to raise his voice for the poor. The Irish Times reports, “Geoff Meagher, national president of St Vincent de Paul (SVP), said the organisation is seeing an “alarming level” of calls...
Laudato Si’ invoked by CM Bishop
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 13, 2015 | Church, Congregation of the Mission, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Bishop Benjamin Romarosa, C.M., of Madagascar speaks of caring for our common home and Laudato Si' in a strongly worded letter to his own government. Madagascar, one of the planet’s poorest countries, has become a new Eldorado of the large international mining...
The hidden costs of being poor
by John Freund, CM | Feb 20, 2015 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
How Expensive It Is to Be Poor The Pew Research Center released a study that found that most wealthy Americans believed “poor people today have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return.”
Sisters of Charity and housing ministry
by John Freund, CM | Feb 19, 2015 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
Women religious have a history of seeing needs and responding to them. Sister Donna Dodge and her community of the Sisters of Charity of New York walk in that tradition.