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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
SSVDP helps to make refugees at home
A community project to help Burmese refugees settle in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA included an important contribution from the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul: furniture. Read the article.
Caring for homeless in Trinidad-Tobago
A concern about bedbugs resulted in a relatively long story about the efforts of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul to care for homeless in Port-of-Spain. There's an explicit discussion about the link between mental illness and homelessness. Read the article.
In the March newsletter of the Miraculous Medal Association
Fr Henry Grodecki, CM has written a reflection on the life of the martyr, St Francis Regis Clet. Visit the Web page.
New National President for SVDP Australia
The St Vincent de Paul Society has elected Victorian Syd Tutton as its new National President. Mr Tutton, who has been an active member of the Vinnies for 36 years takes over from John Meahan, who has finished his term.
High school dropout – systemic change for Thailand’s tribes
The Mirror Art Group (MAG) helps hill tribes – relocated from the mountaintops to the foothills of northern Thailand – fight poverty, unemployment, lack of education, malnutrition, drug abuse, trafficking of women and children, loss of land rights, withholding of...
Connecting with the poor in China
The Great Wall Appeal is a web initiative of a member of the Congregation of the Mission that aims to connect poor people in rural China with the rest of the world. The Great Wall Appeal crosses the digital divide bringing people together to build a Great Wall of...
Latest issue of Vincentian Concern
The latest issue of Vincentian Concern, the newsletter of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in England and Wales, is online. Some of the articles: youth projects, avoiding accidents in the course of SSVDP volunteer work, support of work in Guyana and Sudan, and...
Daughters provide security for yet another corruption witness and his family
After "explosive" testimony Tuesday night in the ongoing corruption investigation in the Philippines, Dante Madriaga found himself without effective security. Again, the Daughters of Charity stepped up to protect a witness. This time, they also are seeing to the...
“Deep faith and unlimited courage”
That's how the women and men religious who built Catholic Charities were characterized by Daughter of Charity Margaret John Kelly in a speech delivered on February 21st at a luncheon sponsored by Catholic Charities. Read the story.
Woman elected SSVDP president in New South Wales
Barbara Ryan has been elected president of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in New South Wales, Australia. It is the first time in the 127 year history of the "Vinnies" in New South Wales that a woman has been elected to the post. Read the article.
