by John Freund, CM | Jan 14, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Haiti needs immediate (disaster relief), intermediate (reconstruction) and long-term (systemic and disaster prevention) assistance writes Aidan Rooney, CM. The Red Cross, Mercy Corps, Doctors Without Borders, CRS and others excel in their abilities to plan and to...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
National President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA Joseph D. Flannigan has issued a call to the 120,000 volunteer members of the Society in the United States, as well as to the general public, to help provide assistance for the victims of the terrible Haiti...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Ascension Health in St. Louis, the nation’s largest Catholic health system, is asking its 113,000 employees to make donations to Seton Institute, Ascension’s international arm. “One hundred percent of donations will go directly to sponsors there in Haiti for their...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | News
The sisters ofNotre Dame de Sacre Coeur in Haiti (link no longer active) in Cape Haitian are all OK and they had no loss of property. Click on the preceding link to learn more of their involvement in Haiti.
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Fr. Faustino Burgos C.M., former visitor of Puerto Rico (the current visitor, Fr. Tulio Cordero, is in Rome and has departed today for Santo Domingo), called the Superior General to give the following news about the earthquake this morning in Haiti: The provincial...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 12, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
According to ABC News reporting at 5:30 Tuesday EST… “The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and was centered about 14 miles (22 kilometers) west from the capital of Port-au-Prince, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. An Associated Press...
