by sjs | Jun 2, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Microplace, an online brokerage service that enables people to make investments that earn a return while empowering the poor to work their way out of poverty, has launched its “Small Change. Big Change” campaign, designed to turn spare nickels and quarters...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 2, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The Vincentian website in Australia leads us to story about the impact of World Youth Day on the homeless. The St Vincent de Paul Society is concerned over a decision to move meals for the homeless away from their usual distribution venues during World Youth Day....
by sjs | May 30, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In Africa, poverty is being fought village by village, using the Millennium Villages approach, which attacks poverty across a wide front. After only two years, the communities involved are already showing real results. The Millennium Villages Project grew out of...
by annaread | May 29, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
By thorough integration of values and mission, Daughters of Charity organized a successful, multi-disciplinary response to change the future of a young woman with a rare and devastating syndrome. Early in March, Hoa Tran, 20, endured eleven hours of surgery, inching...
by annaread | May 28, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A policy paper entitled Which Way Home? A New Approach to Homelessness has been published by the Australian government. The paper’s purpose is to educate, to encourage public discussion, and to offer proposals, with particular focus on changing underlying causes...
by John Freund, CM | May 26, 2008 | Church, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
“The feast of Corpus Christi is an invitation to Christians to work for the elimination of world hunger” writes Benedict XVI. He adds “Dear brothers and sisters, may the feast of Corpus Domini be an occasion to grow in this concrete attention to our...
