by Beth | Mar 31, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Twinning” is one of the activities most cherished by the Society. The awareness of acute poverty in a great number of countries and the Vincentian preferential option for the poor spurs Conferences and Councils to assist others with less resources or in...
by Beth | Mar 29, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
According to the Limerick Post the Daughters of Charity are spearheading work with people who have disabilities.Treating people with disability with dignity A BOOKLET aimed at supporting staff who work with people with an intellectual disability was recently launched...
by Beth | Mar 28, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Combatting malaria made business sense.March 27, 2005 EDITORIAL In 1998, the Australia-based mining company BHP Billiton began building a huge aluminum smelter outside Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. The company knew that malaria plagued the region. It gave all its...
by Beth | Mar 26, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
More than 10 million youngsters under the age of five die each year from a variety of preventable causes, the World Health Organization says. More than 40% of the deaths occur in southern and western Africa, based on mortality rates from 2000 to 2003, with pneumonia,...
by Beth | Mar 21, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
AKAR, Senegal – As far as causes go, malaria may well be the least trendy. Luckily, when more than a dozen African musical superstars converged on this coastal capital to strut their stuff against the disease, Africa’s most persistent scourge, the...
by Beth | Mar 14, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The number of cases of the most serious type of malaria around the world has increased to an estimated 515 million, according to a study in the journal Nature, making the disease possibly more deadly than AIDS. The study, which counted nearly twice the number of cases...
