by John Freund, CM | Feb 4, 2010 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“It is now more dangerous to give birth in California than it is in Kuwait or Bosnia, a recently released report shows. And the problem may be nationwide. Read original story in California Watch
by John Freund, CM | Feb 1, 2010 | Collaboration, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
The newly updated international site of the Daughters of Charity features 3 videos – 2 from Haiti and one about the life of Sister Giuseppina Nicoli who was beatified in 2008.
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 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.
