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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
At St Vincent’s Cardinal Manning Center in LA
The newspaper of the Los Angeles archdiocese has been running a series on homelessness. This week's article is about a young woman who has been living "shelter to shelter" and now lives at a shelter co-sponsored by the St Vincent de Paul Society and Catholic...
Systemic change by lending to beggars
Grameen Bank -- Bank of the Villages -- really does lend to beggars. Take a look at this video to get another example of how microfinance can accomplish systemic change and visit their informative and surprising website. Surprising? Well, yes. How many Nobel Peace...
DVD offers men strategies against depression
After Australian John Harper experienced depression and found help talking with mates, the Rural Task Force of the St Vincent de Paul Society learned of Harper's efforts to gather farmers for support and education about depression. Read more.
Eldermount: “safe, stimulating” elder day care
Sunday's Cincinnati Enquirer ran a story about the rapidly expanding need for elder day care. The article featured Eldermount, which is part of the range of elder care offered by Sisters of Charity at Bayley Place. Read the article.
$2.5 million for St Mary’s House of Welcome
Australia's federal government is contributing $2.5 million (Aus) to redevelop facilities at St Mary's House of Welcome in Melbourne. Established by the Daughters of Charity in 1958, St Mary's serves the disadvantaged and vulnerable of Australia's second largest city....
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Every year since 1993 the United Nations has called for observance of a day to focus, internationally, on ending poverty. October 17 is a good date to check the page on this topic at the UN's Dag Hammarskjöld Library for its excellent resources on the topic.
The Just and Moral Society: reviewing the conference
"The Just and Moral Society: From Ideal to Reality" was the topic of Saturday's conference on poverty presented by the Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St. John's University. Susan Stabile, law professor at University of St. Thomas who spoke at and attended...
World Food Day is tomorrow
As mentioned in this week's post on systemic change, October 16 is the date on which the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations seeks annually to focus awareness on the problem of hunger. The FAO's Web page on the theme, "The Right to Food", has a...
More on VP’s speech at Adamson
Recently famvin.org brought news of Philippine Vice President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council Chairman Noli “Kabayan†De Castro's speech at the launch of the Vincentian Center for Social Responsibility (VCSR) at Adamson University. Here's...
Microfinance: a way to invest in systemic change
Does it make sense that people who most need a little seed money often have the hardest time getting it? Is it just and reasonable that people who would prefer to solve the problems of their poverty and who have ideas about how to do so end up, instead, being offered temporary relief to permanent difficulties?
