by John Freund, CM | Jan 24, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
I am back from Haiti exhausted more emotionally than physically based on the grief and despair that was on the faces of everyone I know. I assume you know that Stephanie and I were in Cap H. when the earthquake hit. The force was so strong in the north that I feared...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 23, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News
Film-maker Gerry Straub (whose story in itself is well worth knowing – San Damiano Foundation) took this video four weeks before the earthquake and recounts his experience in in the first days after the earthquake.
by John Freund, CM | Jan 20, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family
The Provincial Treasurer of Puerto Rico writes “Crossing the frontier between the Dominican Republic and Haiti is not safe anymore.” “Today we add the strain of another high-grade quake in Haiti” “group from St.John’s University, NY, is...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jan 19, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, News, Systemic change, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
“As the death toll rises and tragic images stream, we cannot help but be moved by the suffering of the Haitian people today.” So read the letter from DePaul’s president, Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., President of De Paul University, last Monday...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 19, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, Evangelization, Featured, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Scott Fina offers a contrasting view to David Brooks recent New York Times editorial about the role of poverty in Haiti’s suffering from its earthquake, recently circulated over FamVin. Below he writes “My point? Haiti (like Katrina) is indeed much more a story...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 18, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Laurence de La Brosse, AIC President, has sent out a communication to all AIC members and friends regarding the earthquake that devastated Haiti. Laurence has called for AIC members and friends to pray together and support the relief effort during this difficult time....
