by John Freund, CM | Aug 4, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
In the context of National Homeless Person’s Week 4 – 10 August 2008 (Australia) the St Vincent de Paul Society has asked the federal government to recognise in its White Paper on homelessness that “Housing is a human rightâ€. This is nothing more than the...
by sjs | Aug 4, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“Low-wage workers in the United States are gripped by increasing financial insecurity as they inch along an economic tightrope made riskier by pervasive job losses and rising prices. Many struggle to pay for life’s basics — housing, food and health...
by annaread | Aug 3, 2008 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
The last in the Seeds of Change series: 20 strategies for systemic change described by members of the Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. Joseph P. Foley, C.M. writes: Systemic Change Strategy Twenty: Have a prophetic attitude –...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 3, 2008 | Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, Formation, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Ellen LaCapria’s powerful video, “A Place at the Table”, is now available on DVD for a modest contribution which will be used to support Vincentian Family ongoing relief projects in New Orleans. Vincentian Family Gathering participants well remember...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 1, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Vincentian priest Fr. Joe Fitzgerald offers a website giving voice to the concerns of the Ngobe people in Panama. Complete with YouTube channel he gives voice to the voiceless using simple internet pages.He writes, With a poverty level of 97%, the Ngöbe are truly...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 29, 2008 | Daughters of Charity, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Thanks to a $400,000 grant from the Daughters of Charity Foundation, thePeyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St.Vincent opens its new Child Protection Center to provide optimal and compassionate care for Indiana’s abused and neglected children.
