by Beth | Jan 28, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Fr. Michael Shea writes “For the past three years I have had the opportunity and privilege of going to Juarez during my Christmas vacation with a very energetic group of men and women from Western Michigan. The mixture of “missionaries” is a fine...
by Beth | Jan 24, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Tell everyone you know to wear orange on Famine Friday (that’s February 21st) and help spread awareness of the hunger issue. Send this e-mail to everyone on your address list. Print out flyers from www.faminefriday.org and hand them out or hang them around town....
by Beth | Jan 8, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) is launching a new national awareness campaign that emphasizes the growing number of poor Americans. Timed to coincide with the start of Poverty in America Awareness Month, the new CCHD-sponsored campaign uses...
by Beth | Jan 6, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A basic computer science project was started last 27 September in Tandang Sora, Quezon City (Philippines) for the domestic employees who live in that area. Various seminarians and lay experts, led by a confrere, animate the program which has begun to function in the...
by Beth | Jan 3, 2003 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
St. Jude’s Ranch for Children recycles used greeting cards, clipping the covers and attaching them to preprinted card stock to make a new card, which is then sold to help fund the activities of the ranch. St. Jude’s was founded by a Catholic priest in the...
by Beth | Dec 30, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A late infusion of relief funds has kept food flowing to millions of hungry people in southern Africa, but the emergency will sharpen soon as stockpiles dwindle before the next big harvest, the UN World Food Program (WFP) said on Monday....
