by Beth | Jan 7, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Last month, as corporate boardrooms toasted Australia’s “boom” economy, the Catholic charity organisation, the St Vincent de Paul Society, released a report documenting the growing gap between the country’s rich and poor. The social policy issues paper, Winners and...
by Beth | Jan 6, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
January 05, 2006 Inspired by the mission Vincentian Mission and encounters with members of the Vincentian Curia in Rome, St. John’s University alumnus Josiah Mooney and his wife Katherine are carrying out the Vincentian Mission of caring for society’s most...
by Beth | Jan 4, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON (January 4, 2005)– The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) this month launched a new national awareness campaign that focuses attention on the nearly 36 million poor Americans—and even more attention on the poor and low-income people who are...
by Beth | Dec 30, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
International donors are getting behind a project being developed by the World Bank and Roll Back Malaria aimed at making new, effective malaria drugs affordable worldwide in a year. By using a subsidy of at least $100 million provided by aid donors, officials hope to...
by Beth | Dec 27, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
World Travel Professionals, one of Australia’s most innovative travel management companies, has issued a Christmas challenge to the travel industry to give back to the community rather than giving presents this year. – Sisters of Charity in Sri Lanka benefit...
by Beth | Dec 20, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans is seeking volunteer groups, 10-15 people, to help the elderly, disabled and those without financial means to reoccupy their homes. We are in particular need of volunteer groups in February and April, after college groups...
