by annaread | Nov 6, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Michael Stamm, who won gold and silver medals for swimming in the 1972 Olympics, is now training people to cook for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Oakland, California. “We want,” he says, “to give people a hand up, not a handout.” Read...
by annaread | Nov 6, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In 2008 the Daughters of Charity will open a health center to serve the Bywater and Ninth Ward neighborhoods. Tehe American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress recently pitched in at the new site, as mentioned here recently. The New Orleans business newspaper has...
by sjs | Nov 5, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In several recent speeches, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, talked about the need increase efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Read the story.
by annaread | Nov 5, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
This week programs at Illinois State University will raise awareness of hunger and homelessness. Events include a speaker from Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, screening of the film Children Underground, a hunger banquet, and more. Read the story.
by annaread | Nov 2, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In October of each year, an event promoted by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness asks communities to take a look at how better to connect themselves to the homeless in their midst. Read about the first ever Project Homeless Connect in Humboldt County,...
by annaread | Oct 31, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Malaria is back in parts of Perú. Read about probable causes. Repression of human rights and rampant infectious disease go together in Burma. See UC Berkeley’s report. In science this week, a discovery that having blood type “O” tends to...
