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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Making choice available at a food pantry
A food pantry run by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Port Huron, Michigan USA has a new location and a new way of making food available: "client choice." Read the story.
Finding the Treasure in Trash: Waste Management
Moving from scavenging dangerous refuse heaps . . . to recycling trash into treasures. Urban waste disposal is an enormous problem – waste often piles up faster than cities can remove it. Changemakers.net celebrates a pair of social entrepreneurs in Bangladesh who...
New Book Highlights Entrepreneurial Approach to Poverty
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail hightlights the efforts of International Development Enterprises to address poverty by developing low-cost tools that help subsistence farmers become small-scale commercial farmers and assisting...
Immigration, faith tradition linked
"Together on a Journey of Hope", a two-day immigration affinity meeting sponsored by the Sisters of Charity Foundation, brought together experts on the topic from around the United States. Read the story.
$3 million gift from DC foundation aids uninsured
Uninsured and underinsured cancer patients in central Texas will be beneficiaries of a $3 million (US) grant given by the Daughters of Charity Foundation to the Seton Family of Hospitals. Read the story.
Saint-Vincent-de-Paul “graduate” shares wisdom
Serge Le-Clerc, an official overseeing Canada's correction system, speaks of paradox at the many high schools where he speaks each year: On the one hand, you are the finest generation ever created. Genetically and biologically, you're fitter and stronger. You have a...
SSVDP member featured in “Living the Faith”
This week an article in the Archdiocese of Boston newspaper features a member of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. Gregory Williams, one of the first lay people in the archdiocese's Parish Ministry Formation program, found that his desire to serve increased as his...
Inter-Faith Coalition Announces Plan to Press for More U.S. Aid to Poor Nations
Religious leaders in California have come together to lobby Congress to increase foriegn aid to poor countries. San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer calls it "inconsistent and hypocritical" to say the gospel is for all peoples without being committed to their...
Sister Evelyne Franc DC visits British Province
Recently Sister Evelyne Franc DC, Superioress General of the Daughters of Charity, made her first official visit to Daughters in the British Province. Report and photos.
Fighting about the fight against malaria
Having an enemy in common -- malaria -- has not meant that combatants agree about means and methods. This week's publication of an internal document of the World Health Organization (WHO) that is critical of the Gates Foundation has turned the spotlight on some...
