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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Promoting Sustainable Community Development in Africa
Compassion International announced today a $5 million investment over the next five years in Opportunity International, a microcredit lender serving over a million poor entrepreneurs in developing countries, to fund microfinance operations aimed at the working poor in...
Mary Janet McGilley SCL inducted posthumously to Education Hall of Fame
Sister Mary Janet McGilley, a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth who served Saint Mary College as its president for 25 years, was inducted Saturday into the Mid-America Education Hall of Fame. The first woman to serve as president of the college, Sister McGilley died in...
Ending “educational poverty” in Ireland
Professor John Monaghan, national vice president for the Society of St Vincent de Paul in Ireland, has a piece in the Irish Independent that explains the reasons for the Society's spending on education. He also describes changes the Society advocates for Ireland's...
Sister of Charity of Nazareth assaulted
Sister of Charity of Nazareth Rose Plathottam was assaulted Saturday at Chetanalaya, a facility run by the Sisters for physically challenged girls. Local coverage characterized her injuries as "not serious". In June 2005 Chetanalaya was invaded by armed robbers. On...
Gold medalist trains chefs in Bay Area SSVDP “Kitchen of Champions”
Michael Stamm, who won gold and silver medals for swimming in the 1972 Olympics, is now training people to cook for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Oakland, California. "We want," he says, "to give people a hand up, not a handout." Read the local newspaper's...
Update: dealing with tainted toys
A new challenge for St Vincent de Paul thrift stores is making sure unsafe toys donated to the stores are destroyed, not distributed. The ingenious solution of the Indianapolis Society of St Vincent de Paul is reported in this brief TV news story.
Daughters to open New Orleans clinic
In 2008 the Daughters of Charity will open a health center to serve the Bywater and Ninth Ward neighborhoods. Tehe American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress recently pitched in at the new site, as mentioned here recently. The New Orleans business newspaper has...
More Progress Needed toward Achieving Millennium Development Goals
In several recent speeches, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, talked about the need increase efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Read the story.
Making poverty visible to college students
This week programs at Illinois State University will raise awareness of hunger and homelessness. Events include a speaker from Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, screening of the film Children Underground, a hunger banquet, and more. Read the story.
Updates at CM Australia missions page
More recent photos of the International Vincentian Mission in the Solomons have been added to the page at the Vincentians Congregation of the Mission Australia site. Take a look. The newest sport an asterisk at the bottom right of the photo. Hat tip: Vincentians...
