UNICEF's New Approach Focuses on Poorest of the Poor
According to Slatest “Instead of building modern hospitals in cities, UNICEF is shifting strategy ahead of a review of its Millennium Development Goals and will start working on getting health care to children in the world’s most remote regions.” Please click our Read More button for Vincentian Family perspectives.
Read original story in The Associated Press | Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010
A quick random sampling of statements Vincentian Family focus on the poorest of the poor
- Vincent recommends
- a practical, concrete, pastoral charity and a willingness to seek out the poorest of the poor wherever they might be:
- Serving the poorest of the poor in Haiti especially through systemic change
- Previous article on the work in the slums in Madagascar and the garbage dump in the Philippines.
- Homeless People’s Federation
Philippines
- Akamasoa Madagascar
- Benchmarks of Depaul International from presentation to CM General Assembly 2010
Depaul International’s Vincentian Vision, Mission, Values
What emerged from that consultation was a clear consensus that it was the Vincentian spirit, which gave us life and unity of purpose. Out of that came some powerful benchmarks, which have formed the backbone of our values statement and underpin all of the work that we do to this day.
• Action, not words
• Poorest of the poor
• Non-judgemental
• The poor are our masters
• Innovative unto infinity
• Taking risks
- International President of the SVDP
- Each Conference, in service to the poorest of the poor, and also to its members, is nothing more than the sum of the wills of its components.
- Vincentian Marian Youth
- We could say that “there is no misery that can be considered as foreign to a VMY member. That is why our groups organize or collaborate with organized and systematic service projects for the poorest of the poor, so that they may become active individuals of their own development (literacy campaigns, assistance at homes for the aged and the disabled, hospitals, attending the sick or abandoned families, etc.) It is very important that from the first moment they belong to the VMY, the young members come in personal contact with the poor so that they may learn to listen to them and to offer them their friendship, that they may become sensitive to the suffering of others and that they search for means to help them get out of their situation. Our Marian piety will be empty and fruitless if it does not end in a commitment with the poor in the Vincentian style.
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