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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
JMV Roundup
Karmen Kunc VMY International Councillor reports on the gathering of 270 young JMV members in Rome (Link no longer active)to celebrate the closing of the 350 Jubilee. Click Read More to learn more.... JMV Video Gallery interviews with leadership from recent General...
Clinton Bush Haiti Fund gives 1/2 Million to Fonkose and Zafen
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund has given half a million dollars to Fonkoze. Basically, it's for deploying a team of business analysts to identify and evaluate small and medium-sized enterprises. This will be enormously helpful for developing the Zafen website in an...
World Food (Hunger) Day 2010
Are you one in a billion? On this World Food Day 2010 Oct. 16 there have never been so many hungry people in the world - 1 BILLION. The theme of this year’s observance is United against hunger. Uniting against hunger becomes real when state and civil society...
Daughters honored by King in Morroco
King Mohamed VI honoured four Spanish Daughters of Charity, residents in Tangier, Morocco. The king praised the work of the Daughters of Charity at an orphanage in Alhucemas. Cick Read more to learn about other civic awards. “I know your work and we appreciate it very...
Home Visits as celebrating life
Beacons of Light 2010, Program 7 -"Celebrate Respect Life Sunday in Baton Rouge! Beacons of Light, Program 7, features SVDP Home Visits to the needy in the community and focuses on the Confraternities of Charity begun and developed by St. Vincent De Paul and St....
Hotel Dieu – Ladies of Charity, Daughters of Charity
The first work undertaken by the Ladies of Charity of Paris was to visit the women patients at Hôtel-Dieu hospital, bring them something to eat, exhort them to bear their illnesses, and to make a good general confession. Daughters of Charity were assigned to support...
Blog Action Day 2010: Water
Blog Action Day 2010: Water addresses a global need.
Startling facts about water
For starters … more people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. Calling all Vincentian Family bloggers! Blog Action Day is devoted to raising our consciousness. More than 2,200 bloggers from 113 different countries have already registered to blog about these and other startling facts, with more and more joining every day.
Zafen receiving national media attention
The Huffington Post posts a feature about Zafen in its October 8 edition. Zafèn Haitian Microfinance Effort Engages Haitians to Forge a New Future
Water, water – everywhere? Vincentian Family concern – everywhere
Almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. Unsafe water and a lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all disease and kill more people than all forms of violence, including war. And this is a concern of many members of the...
