by John Freund, CM | Jul 16, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
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...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 16, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
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...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 13, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
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...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 26, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
St. John’s student-volunteers embarked on two very different service trips, each sponsored by the Office of Campus Ministry. For one group, which traveled to a small Panamanian village to fix houses, the trip was a time to get the hands dirty. For the other group,...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 21, 2007 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The challenge is to live off of the average food stamp budget of $21 per person per week Salem–Today Governor Ted Kulongoski challenged all Oregonians to join him and his wife, Mary Oberst, during “Hunger Awareness Week†from April 23-29, 2007 and live off of an...