by Beth | Apr 22, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
You have an opportunity in the next 9 days to have your donation to Food First matched by Alan Shawn Feinstein, who is giving $1 million to fight hunger in the U.S. http://thedatabank.com/hfriend.asp?aacwc=374419911756891063137095 Join the Feinstein Hunger Challenge!...
by Beth | Apr 17, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
MELBOURNE, April 18, 2005 (theage.com.au): Criminal checks, health rules and red tape are ruining volunteer work, warns Jan McCallum for The Age – The Victorian Government’s proposed law requiring a police check for almost every person working with...
by Beth | Apr 12, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Vincentian Millenium Partnership in Great Britan joins in campaign to raise the issue of poverty caused by low benefits.Throughout the country, claimants and anti-poverty groups are being encouraged to join a co-ordinated campaign to raise the issue of the poverty...
by Beth | Apr 8, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In a story in the New York Times one can think about the unintended consequences of technology. These flowers are cheap, thin plastic bags that are tossed to the ground by consumers. This kind of litter has reached a critical mass in Kenya – clogging streams,...
by Beth | Apr 7, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
There were some 160 projects generated by the Vincentian Family Campaign Against Hunger. These projects gbenerated the following funds * Africa: 494,280 $USA * America: 993,800 $USA * Asia: 32,500 $USA * Europe: 1,245,000 $USA The report provides more in depth...
by Beth | Apr 2, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
John Conry of St. John�s College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, embodies the Vincentian ideal of service to the poor and disadvantaged by volunteering at least once a week in Manhattan with Project Renewal�s Mobile Medical Outreach Clinic. Aboard the...
