by John Freund, CM | Jan 31, 2010 | News, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
The earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12 brought down traditional means of communication. Inside the devastated country and out, people desperate for information and help turned to new technology. They turned to Facebook, Twitter and other social-media sites....
by John Freund, CM | Jan 29, 2010 | Collaboration, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
The DC houses situated in Port-au-Prince have been severely damaged and our Sisters have become homeless having to sleep outside in tents. They are trying to give basic services (nursing care, nutrition and accompaniment) in the middle of the general chaos. As soon as...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 28, 2010 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Message from Eduardo Marqués Almeida, who lives in Haiti and serves as International Territorial Vice-President for South America Equatorial North, Eduardo Marqués Almeida, (24th January, 2010) Dear Father Gregory and José Ramón, I hope you are well. Yesterday, for...
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 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...
