by sjs | Jul 27, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Remember Tupperware parties? In places throughout the U.S., beads made by women from a Ugandan village are the items being sold. The proceeds are having a dramatic effect in Kampala, Uganda. Women in Kampala had been making beads and selling them to occasional...
by sjs | Jul 11, 2008 | Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
The prayer of the Vincentian family asks Christ to help us recognize him in the poor – “in their thirst, their hunger, their loneliness.” The SSVDPS in Ireland is promoting a “know your neighbour” weekend to help address social isolation....
by sjs | Jul 11, 2008 | Evangelization, Justice and Peace
Women religious in Thailand are making headway preventing young girls from falling into trafficking by training them “to stand shoulder to shoulder with men or their future husbands to build their own families.” In the view of women religious working in...
by sjs | Jul 7, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Taking seriously the U.N. Millennium Development Goal of achieving “improvement in the lives of 100 million slum dwellers by the year 2015,” the Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through...
by sjs | Jul 3, 2008 | Church, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The food crisis is threatening “the attainment of the primary right of every person to be free from starvation,” said Archbishop Migliori, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, at yesterday’s general debate of the U.N. Economic...
