by John Freund, CM | Jan 15, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, Formation, Justice and Peace, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Thus writes conservative commentator David Brooks in the New York Times. There is much food for thought for the Vincentian Family efforts at collaboration in Haiti.
by John Freund, CM | Jan 14, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Haiti needs immediate (disaster relief), intermediate (reconstruction) and long-term (systemic and disaster prevention) assistance writes Aidan Rooney, CM. The Red Cross, Mercy Corps, Doctors Without Borders, CRS and others excel in their abilities to plan and to...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
National President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA Joseph D. Flannigan has issued a call to the 120,000 volunteer members of the Society in the United States, as well as to the general public, to help provide assistance for the victims of the terrible Haiti...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Ascension Health in St. Louis, the nation’s largest Catholic health system, is asking its 113,000 employees to make donations to Seton Institute, Ascension’s international arm. “One hundred percent of donations will go directly to sponsors there in Haiti for their...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 13, 2010 | Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Fr. Faustino Burgos C.M., former visitor of Puerto Rico (the current visitor, Fr. Tulio Cordero, is in Rome and has departed today for Santo Domingo), called the Superior General to give the following news about the earthquake this morning in Haiti: The provincial...
