by John Freund, CM | Feb 15, 2010 | Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
The Daughters of Charity (DC) and SSVP(CGI) are jointly collaborating to provide relief assistance to the victims of the disaster. This joint effort will involve the participation of the DC and SSVP and the latter includes the SSVP members in Haiti and Eduardo...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 1, 2010 | Collaboration, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
The newly updated international site of the Daughters of Charity features 3 videos – 2 from Haiti and one about the life of Sister Giuseppina Nicoli who was beatified in 2008.
by John Freund, CM | Jan 29, 2010 | Collaboration, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
The DC houses situated in Port-au-Prince have been severely damaged and our Sisters have become homeless having to sleep outside in tents. They are trying to give basic services (nursing care, nutrition and accompaniment) in the middle of the general chaos. As soon as...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 24, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
I am back from Haiti exhausted more emotionally than physically based on the grief and despair that was on the faces of everyone I know. I assume you know that Stephanie and I were in Cap H. when the earthquake hit. The force was so strong in the north that I feared...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 23, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News
Film-maker Gerry Straub (whose story in itself is well worth knowing – San Damiano Foundation) took this video four weeks before the earthquake and recounts his experience in in the first days after the earthquake.
