For twenty weeks the English language site of famvin.org has featured a strategy for systemic change. This week, Robert Maloney, C.M., Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change, announces the publication of Seeds of Hope: Stories of Systemic Change. Father Maloney writes:
I am very happy to let you know today that Seeds of Hope: Stories of Systemic Change, a book prepared by the international Commission for Promoting Systemic Change, is now available in English. I hope that it will be a useful tool as the worldwide Vincentian Family reflects on systemic change during 2008-2009.
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul in the USA financed the publication and is taking care of the distribution. Sr. Kieran Kneaves, who is the National Formation Director of the Society in the USA, coordinated the publication of the book.
A Spanish version of Seeds of Hope: Stories of Systemic Change is currently at the printer’s in Madrid and will available in September.
We hope that a French version will also be available during the coming year.
As you know, the Commission for Promoting Systemic Change is planning workshops on all the continents during 2009-2010 to train members of the Family to give further workshops on systemic change. The first of these will be held in Mexico in February 2009. At that time a tool kit will be distributed, with practical materials related to the book. We hope that it will help the members of the Family as they teach about systemic change. A similar workshop will be organized for the Vincentian Family in the USA at a later date, probably in 2010. Further information about the continental workshops will be sent out by the continental coordinating committees.
I hope that Seeds of Hope: Stories of Systemic Change will be very useful to the members of the Vincentian Family throughout the world in our efforts to serve the poor concretely and effectively.
Your brother in St. Vincent,
Bob Maloney, C.M.
Coordinator, Commission for Promoting Systemic Change
The Seeds of Change series is archived at the Vincentian Encyclopedia.
Tags: Anti-poverty strategies
Thanks Sister Kieran/Father Maloney for the written material. I can learn a lot.
I am Indonesian, former Visitatrix, met Sister Kieran in the Philippines and Fr.Maloney several times.
I’ll be faithful to read this news.
Sr.Laetitia, DC
Thanks Sister Kieran/Father Maloney for the written material. I can learn a lot.
I am Indonesian, former Visitatrix, met Sister Kieran in the Philippines and Fr.Maloney several times.
I’ll be faithful to read this news.
Sr.Laetitia, DC
I think God Almighty for the Vincentian Family discovery. I am also thankful to such thoughful people as father Maloney to have written such an edifying book as: Seeds of Hope: Stories of Systemic Change.
I was only looking for a job position in Haiti on the internet.I e-mailed my CURRICULUM VITAE to a nice person (although not seen yet) Laura Hartman at de Paul in Chicaco, Ill. And I found Vincentian & all of you.
I feel compelled to tell you a little about me. As I was reading about St Vincent de Paul I look back to my first years at school in Haiti where I was born & raised. It was a Catholic school.” Les Freres de l’Instruction Chretienne. School of the Brethren of Christian Education ” managed by the Brethren.
I was very, very pious. I was an imitator of St Dominique Savio. I think I miss that. The name Jn Marie Robert de la Mennais captured my thoughts also for a long time. I am very thinkful to have received a solid education in that Catholic school.