by John Freund, CM | Nov 18, 2007 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Top down or bottom up? Poor people are not the problem but the key to eradicating hunger. Such is the belief of The Hunger Project, a global, strategic organization committed to the sustainable end of world hunger. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, The Hunger Project... by sjs | Nov 7, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
Compassion International announced today a $5 million investment over the next five years in Opportunity International, a microcredit lender serving over a million poor entrepreneurs in developing countries, to fund microfinance operations aimed at the working poor in... by annaread | Nov 5, 2007 | Evangelization, News, Systemic change
Sunday the Salem Oregon USA St Vincent de Paul Society held the grand opening of the Center for Family Success, a program to work with families where parents have, by incarceration or otherwise, been involved with the criminal justice system. It’s modeled on... by John Freund, CM | Nov 4, 2007 | Featured, Systemic change
One key to “addressing underlying causes and discovering long-term solutions for poverty” (John Paul II to Vincentians), a process also known as “systemic change”, is recognizing the difference between “hand outs” and “a hand... by John Freund, CM | Oct 28, 2007 | Featured, Justice and Peace, Systemic change
There is little awareness in the developed world of the vast network of child slaves, some 200,000 in Thailand alone. ‘To see girls enslaved in brothels, it hurts,’ says Sompop Jantraka. ‘If you can protect one child, you protect future... by annaread | Oct 24, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change
With as little as $100, it is possible to invest in microfinance, the topic of last week’s famvin.org feature on systemic change. Today eBay, the online auction site, launched MicroPlace and its slogan: “Invest wisely. End poverty.” See BBC coverage...