by John Freund, CM | Jun 22, 2009 | Collaboration, Daughters of Charity, Featured, Justice and Peace, Vincentian Family
“You have to start somewhere” and college students teach the Daughters and the SVDP one place to start for systemic change. “Sex Trafficking in Macon, Georgia?” is the lead story in the current joint newsletter of the Daughters of Charity and...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 17, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A fun activity to start a conversation about immigration with your leaders or allies. Northwest Federation of Community Organizations (NWFCO} created this board game as a tool for grassroots organizations to use. Just click on the game parts below and print them out...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 17, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
The definitive biography, Elizabeth Bayley Seton 1774-1821, originated from a doctoral dissertation written nearly sixty years ago by Annabelle Melville, at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Little did she anticipate that two years later in 1951,...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 14, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Systemic change is urgently needed when 130 million girls and women worldwide are currently living with the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) according to the World Health Organization. In Africa, about three million girls are at risk for FGM annually...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 11, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
Three participants of the Daughters of Charity General Assembly present their impressions in French, Spanish and English respectively. The lead story on their international site presents interviews with Sr. Marie-Bernard Giffard, Sr. Maria Esther Seoane Sanchez and...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 9, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
On Monday, the members of the General Assembly elected the new General Councillors of the Company. The General Council, therefore, now consists of the following: Sr Kathleen APPLER, American Sr Christa BAUER, Austrian, re-elected Sr Zofia DANISCAKOVA, Slovakian,...