by Beth | Jun 16, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Vincent often reminded us to teach how to fish rather than merely handout food. The Heifer Project stands in that tradition.Heifer animals (and training in their care) offer hungry families around the world a way to feed themselves and become self-reliant. Children...
by Beth | Jun 15, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
 The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day to half the 1990 level by 2015-from 29 percent of all people in low and middle income economies to 14.5 percent. f achieved, this would reduce the number of...
by Beth | Jun 12, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Text of Papal Message to World Food Summit in Rome ROME, JUNE 10, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Here is John Paul II’s message to the World Food Summit, convoked in Rome under the aegis of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. The message was read at the opening of...
by Beth | Jun 11, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WE ARE FIGHTING BACK! is a compilation of inspirational stories of courageous people around the world who are fighting back to reclaim peoples’ rights to lead a dignified human existence.This is a SPECIAL EDITION on systemic causes of hunger with the following...
by Beth | Jun 10, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
VATICAN, Jun 10, 02 (CWNews.com) — In a message to participants in the World Food Summit, which opens today in Rome, Pope John Paul II said that “poverty and hunger constitute a concrete threat to peace and international security.” The Pope expressed...
by Beth | Jun 10, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Daughters of Charity music group raises approximately £2,000 in 12 hour musicthonSee photos and story
