by sjs | Oct 29, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Council of Science Editors organized a “Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development” on October 22, 2007, with the aim of both encouraging reseach on poverty and human development and disseminating that research to the broadest possible...
by annaread | Oct 29, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Because of the initiative of a St. Vincent de Paul Society volunteer, it has become easier for organizations in a Florida county to supply food to those who need it. The Society worked with the local food bank and municipality to open a drop site for the food bank and...
by annaread | Oct 25, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
On its first anniversary, Cincinnati’s St. Vincent de Paul free pharmacy sees requests for help with prescription drugs increasing by 20% each month. Read the story.
by annaread | Oct 25, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Previously famvin.org published a link to a participant’s overview of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society’s conference on poverty. Now a complete digest of the day includes summaries of the keynote address by John J. Coughlin, O.F.M., J.D., J.C.D....
by annaread | Oct 25, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The October 20, 2007 edition of the newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans reports on “Operation Giving Back”, a project of the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress. A former school is being remodeled as a neighborhood health clinic to be...
by annaread | Oct 24, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Peter Agre MD, who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will become director of the Malaria Research Institute at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He told the Baltimore Sun that malaria has long fascinated him because it is so deadly and so...
