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...
by sjs | May 4, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
75 low-income families are now renting apartments in St. Vincent’s Gardens, a new affordable housing complex in Santa Barbara run by the Daughters of Charity. The complex “is already shining as a symbol of subsidized housing done right.” For years,...
by annaread | Apr 30, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
“A Journey to Social Inclusion” is the name of a new plan in Victoria, Australia to effect changes needed to break the cycle of homelessness. A St Vincent de Paul Society representative says options for housing have decreased at a time that need might well...
by annaread | Apr 29, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Rising costs of food and gasoline have created financial pressure extreme enough that people who have never before received social services are now accepting help. The number of guests at a Sisters of Charity soup kitchen in Charleston has increased recently by half....
