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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
$300 Million Commitment to Reduce Health Care Disparities
"Across America, there are serious gaps between the health care that people should receive and the care they actually receive,†said the president/CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in announcing a $300 million community-focused program to improve health...
CM – TV “New Yorker of the Week”
Channel 1, with 2 millions viewers proclaimed Vincentian Father Tri Minh Duong, CM New Yorker of the Week on 16 May 2008,. New York One is a 24-hour TV news channe that reaches more than two million cable TV users in the five boroughs of New York City. In addition to...
May issue of Nuntia
The May issue of NUNTIA of the Congregation of the Mission is online with reports about the activities of the Superior General and the various members of the Curia; the Provinces of Spain, Paris, Poland and Portugal; Fr. Tri Duong on TV as "New Yorker of the Week"
Media misrepresented Vincent de Paul Society (Australia)
In a media release, the St Vincent de Paul Society said that a press report stating that the homeless could go hungry during the pope's visit misrepresented the position of the society. The interview with Night Patrol President Brett Avery was taken completely out of...
First Pilgrimage for Rosalie Rendu
The Daughters of Charity international site features a report of the first pilgrimage ever mounted by the diocese in which Sr. Rosalie Rendu was born.
Legal empowerment – key pillar of the anti-poverty agenda.
As the food crisis grows, a report finds four billion people are excluded from the rule of law the UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor makes a global call to make legal empowerment a key pillar of the anti-poverty agenda. A blog on Asset-building, states...
Picturing Poverty – 100 cameras make the poor visible
Instead of explaining the desperate plight of the homeless at the Society of St. Vincent DePaul (Australia) 2008 appeal launch last week, the society gave disposable cameras to 100 marginalised people in New South Wales and asked them to take a snapshot of their life....
Business – Make money without exploiting the poor?
"Can a company make money from the work of impoverished people in the developing world without taking advantage of them?" is the question raised in a Wharton School of Business newsletter. For Patrick Byrne, the answer is a qualified yes. Byrne believes that he has...
50 economists – top priority “improving wellbeing of poor people”
50 economists examine ten of the world's biggest challenges and place as Number 1 because of its "immediate and important consequences for improving the wellbeing of poor people around the world," to combat malnutrition in the 140 million children in the world who are...
Small Change Means Big 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 into agents...
