by annaread | May 11, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Daughters of Charity have opened a Drug Resource Enhancement against Aids and Malnutrition (DREAM) center in Kenya. It offers state of the art services to manage HIV and malnutrition. The Daily Nation’s article features the story of Nduku, a 35 year old...
by annaread | May 11, 2008 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
The ninth in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Patricia Nava writes: Systemic Change Strategy Eight: Listen carefully and seek to understand the...
by sjs | May 8, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Global child mortality equates to the 2004 Asian tsunami striking every 40 days and killing only children – nearly all of them among the poorest of our world’s 6.5 billion people,” writes Bill Frist in the forward to Save the Children’s 2008...
by annaread | May 7, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline will give $133,500 to the Daughters of Charity Health Center at St. Cecilia in New Orleans. Funds are to expand community outreach for preventing and managing diabetes. Louisiana’s death rate from diabetes is highest of...
by annaread | May 6, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The rice shortage throughout the world has caused a writer for a Web log about finances to reflect on the topic of hoarding. He doesn’t like it: “A hoarder… buys stuff and holds on to it, hoping to sell after the price goes up.” But he approves...
by sjs | May 5, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
When Vincent saw a poor person, he saw the face of Christ. What do we see? Lamentably, for many the answer is someone too lazy to lift themselves out of poverty. The Homeless Alliance of Greater Buffalo has come up with an event to help change that perception. The...
