by annaread | Nov 6, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Vincentian Family
A new challenge for St Vincent de Paul thrift stores is making sure unsafe toys donated to the stores are destroyed, not distributed. The ingenious solution of the Indianapolis Society of St Vincent de Paul is reported in this brief TV news story.
by annaread | Nov 6, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In 2008 the Daughters of Charity will open a health center to serve the Bywater and Ninth Ward neighborhoods. Tehe American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress recently pitched in at the new site, as mentioned here recently. The New Orleans business newspaper has...
by annaread | Nov 5, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
This week programs at Illinois State University will raise awareness of hunger and homelessness. Events include a speaker from Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, screening of the film Children Underground, a hunger banquet, and more. Read the story.
by annaread | Nov 5, 2007 | Missions inter gentes
More recent photos of the International Vincentian Mission in the Solomons have been added to the page at the Vincentians Congregation of the Mission Australia site. Take a look. The newest sport an asterisk at the bottom right of the photo. Hat tip: Vincentians...
by annaread | Nov 5, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Systemic change
Sunday the Salem Oregon USA St Vincent de Paul Society held the grand opening of the Center for Family Success, a program to work with families where parents have, by incarceration or otherwise, been involved with the criminal justice system. It’s modeled on...
