A year-long campaign called “Home First” will raise awareness about the situation of street children, and to confront the causes that can lead children to become homeless in Kenya.
Vincentian Family Homeless Alliance
Dreams Built, Futures Secured: Microcredit Innovation in India
“What Must Be Done?” An Answer That Transformed 10,000 Lives
by Anna Mosca | February 4, 2024 | News | 1 Comment
Imagine if Saint Vincent de Paul was with us today. What would he do in a world still torn by wars, where billions of people are looking for a home?
Famvin Homeless Alliance: International Conference 2024
10,000 People Housed through Vincentian Family Global Campaign to End Homelessness
by Vincentian Family Office | December 17, 2023 | News | 0 Comments
Thanks to the unity and commitment of the Vincentian Family, 102 varied projects around the world have emerged to serve different people experiencing homelessness and lacking a safe place to call home.
The Vincentian Family is Promoting the Housing of Homeless Around the World
by Vincentian Family Office | Apr 18, 2022 | News
Homelessness. For the Institute of Global Homelessness (IGH), this term refers to homeless people; people living on...
Helping Families Rebuild their Lives after the December 2021 Typhoon in the Philippines
by Famvin Homeless Alliance | Apr 10, 2022 | News
In December 2021, Typhoon Odette/Ray battered the Philippines blowing off roofs, uprooting trees, cutting off power and leaving hundreds of thousands to seek shelter.
Collaboration Works! – Good News
by John Freund, CM | Feb 12, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
Demonstrations of the power of collaboration in systemic change.
From Lebanon to Rwanda – In Solidarity with Refugees
by Javier F. Chento | Feb 2, 2020 | News
With the meeting the Famvin Rwanda committee we hope, with God’s grace, that good plans will be made to shelter more homeless people.
Diaries of a Vincentian: On top of the World
by Anja Bohnsack | Jan 26, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
When leaving these hills, I knew that I must do more. That I must do better. Because I only held one little hand – but there are millions more reaching out.
Diaries of a Vincentian: I Know
by Anja Bohnsack | Dec 31, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
He looked at me with tears in his eyes and without the need for any words they seemed to quietly, pleadingly ask me, ‘Why?’
Historic Meeting of Over 100 Branches of the Vincentian Family
by John Freund, CM | Dec 27, 2019 | Formation, News
For the first time, Superiors and Presidents of the more than 150 branches that make up the Vincentian Family will meet in Rome, Italy from January 8 to 12, 2020.
Diaries of a Vincentian: Sharing the Word and a Meal
by Gina Paredes | Dec 8, 2019 | News, Vincentian Family
But, after a few years, we came to understand that we had to live out our faith through befriending people living on the streets.
12 Months of 13 Houses!
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 2, 2019 | News
The 13 Houses Campaign is one-year-old today!
The Streets as Home: A One Way Street?
by Bianca Aline Salamanca | Dec 1, 2019 | Formation, Reflections
With the passing of the years, the process of urbanization has expanded and as a result, the social problems have become more heightened and intense.
What Would St Vincent de Paul Have Thought About the World’s Big Sleep Out?
by Vincentian Family Office | Nov 30, 2019 | Formation
Whether or not St. Vincent would have organized a sleep-out, he certainly gives us an example of doing new things and speaking to powerful people in order to carry out his work.