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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
1600 free HIV tests given in Sierra Leone
In just three weeks a medical team from Nova Scotia has provided 1600 free, confidential HIV tests in Sierra Leone. Ordinarily, government hospitals might test only 30 people per month. Sisters of Charity of Halifax helped support the project. Read the story.
Sister of Charity leads coalition of environmentalists
Sister of Charity Paula Gonzalez, co-chairwoman of the Ohio Interfaith Power and Light, believes that "connecting with the Earth is beginning to happen in our culture." Some know her as the "solar nun." Read the story.
“Therapeutic” preschool prepares homeless children for kindergarten
Children who live in traumatic situations need more than day care. The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Eugene, Oregon USA has full day program that early childhood educators say is unique. First Place Kids Center adopts new approachFirst Place Kids Center rethinks...
New edition of Ozanam News now online
Ozanam News, the quarterly of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in the United States, is now online. The report for the first quarter of 2008 opens by asking: Are you willing to be a friend to the poor? Are you willing to be a voice of the poor? Go to Ozanam News...
20 proven strategies for systemic change
This week, we begin a 20-week series of articles written by the members of the Commission for Promoting Systemic Change. The articles will feature strategies that are useful, often even essential, for reshaping systems that have led to poverty, disease, oppression and...
Subprime Loans and Poverty
Bread for the World has released a study finding a strong correlation between poverty rates and the percentage of mortgages that are subprime. “Some of the poorest people are going to be forced into deeper poverty [and hunger] because of widespread subprime...
Replacing signs and protest with social entreprenurship
"Our generation is replacing signs and protests with individual actions,’’ says Kyle Taylor, 23, an advocate for the social-entrepreneur movement who started his own mentoring organization. ‘‘This is our civil rights movement and what will define our...
An End to Poverty
The Christian Science Monitor just concluded a five-part series focusing on myths about poverty and strategies for ending poverty. Part 5 (Practical Steps to End Poverty), which contains links to the other four installments of the series, is here.
Anti-Poverty Summit Addresses Working Poor
The National Employment Law Project, NYU's Wagner School of Public Service and others are bringing together key government, academic, civic and labor leaders and policy makers for The Summit on Eliminating Poverty Among the Working Poor. Today is the first of what is...
Drinking water for all: a challenge
There's an extensive article in the Friday edition of THISDAY, one of Nigeria's national papers, about the challenge of providing safe drinking water for everyone: "...women and children spend much of their lives in pursuit of this vital resource." Read the story.
