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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
World Youth Day – A Request from the Organizers of the Vincentian Family
Lisa Bright, the local organizer of the Vincentian Family component of World Youth Day, would like to build a network amongst the Vincentian Schools around the world and sees this gathering as the opportunity to do so. One of the local Vincentian schools would like to...
UN – Biofuels Will Hinder Fight Against Hunger
According to the Financial Times the United Nations World Food Programme has warned that rising food prices are threatening its ability to feed the roughly 90 million people around the world that it helps, urging donors to boost their contributions. One concern is...
Welfare Quarantine Useless: Vinnies (Australia)
Federal Government and Opposition proposals to quarantine welfare payments to "at risk" parents are simplistic and will not prevent truancy or child neglect, the Society of St Vincent de Paul says. The Australian reports that over the weekend both Prime Minister John...
Sister of Charity (Cincinnati) Receives Human Service Award
Sr. Martha Walsh, S.C., received the 2007 Sister Mary Lea Mueller Human Service Award from the College of Mount St. Joseph at the reunion convocation in June. This award is given to an alum who has lived out the mission of the College through a life of service to...
SVDP Youth Group – University of Sidney, Australia
USydYV, or the University of Sydney Young Vinnies Conference, is a branch of the youth division of the St Vincent de Paul Society, based at Sydney University.Among their activities: Buddies Days involve a group of volunteers hosting a day out for young children from...
Micro Finance As Tool of Involving Poor in Systemic Change
Video  describing how micro finance is a tool of systemic change. Grameen Foundation has been working across the globe to help them pull themselves from poverty by starting, sustaining or expand tiny businesses. Breaking Through gives you a glimpse of what this has...
More on bottled water
About the impact of bottled water on the environment, allwater.org says: The bottled water industry causes a severe strain on the environment, but solutions to this environmental damage significantly lessen the quality of water in the bottles. Not quite the effect...
Biofuels Will Cause Hunger, Not Bring Rural Development
Biofuels are not clean and green. Biofuels will result in deforestation. Biofuels will not bring rural development. Biofuels will cause hunger. Today's International Herald Tribune, with more than one million political and influential subscribers worldwide,...
Video on the Anniversary of the Vincentian Marian Youth
President's Letter and video (Link apparently has moved)to the VMY Members for the July 18 Anniversary, the night in which the Blessed Virgin asked "for an Association of young people who shall be consecrated."
Pope Approves Miracles Related To Two Daughters of Charity
VATICAN CITY, July 6, 2007 (VIS) - Today in the Vatican, the Holy Father received in private audience Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, C.M.F., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and authorized the promulgation of decrees concerning the following...
