by John Freund, CM | Aug 21, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Milk Crate Theater is a creative approach to homelessness in Australia. Milk Crate offers its participants a way of taking complex and intense parts of their lives and exploring them in a creative way, and in a safe space. At Australia’s only theatre company solely...
by sjs | Aug 18, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Poverty is the theme of this year’s Blog Action Day, an annual day on which bloggers are invited to bring public attention to a particular social problem. This year, Blog Action Day is October 15. To find out more and to see a video explaining what Blog Action...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 11, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
The Vincentian Help Desk is not your conventional IT resource. Rather “The Vincentian Help Desk” describes how the Society of St. Vincent de Paul provides essential services to the under served of San Francisco. 5 minute video
by annaread | Aug 10, 2008 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
For twenty weeks the English language site of famvin.org has featured a strategy for systemic change. This week, Robert Maloney, C.M., Vincentian Family’s Commission for Promoting Systemic Change, announces the publication of Seeds of Hope: Stories of Systemic...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 4, 2008 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
In the context of National Homeless Person’s Week 4 – 10 August 2008 (Australia) the St Vincent de Paul Society has asked the federal government to recognise in its White Paper on homelessness that “Housing is a human rightâ€. This is nothing more than the...
