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Setting Free the Slaves: Systemic Change One Child at a time

by John Freund, CM | Oct 28, 2007 | Featured, Justice and Peace, Systemic change

There is little awareness in the developed world of the vast network of child slaves, some 200,000 in Thailand alone. ‘To see girls enslaved in brothels, it hurts,’ says Sompop Jantraka. ‘If you can protect one child, you protect future...

Advancing human rights by systemic change

by annaread | Oct 21, 2007 | Featured, Justice and Peace, Systemic change

International Bridges to Justice works to protect basic legal rights of citizens of developing countries. The thin wedge of this narrowly defined mission has opened the door to increasing human rights: for instance, to reducing the use of torture as a means of...

Microfinance: a way to invest in systemic change

by John Freund, CM | Oct 15, 2007 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change

Does it make sense that people who most need a little seed money often have the hardest time getting it? Is it just and reasonable that people who would prefer to solve the problems of their poverty and who have ideas about how to do so end up, instead, being offered...

Systemic change: garbage dump becomes a place of hope

by John Freund, CM | Oct 7, 2007 | Featured, Formation, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change, Vincentian Family

[google 2238105394190368409] There’s a garbage pile that dwarfs, easily, the small hills of Rome — and people live on top of it. Payatas is home to people who live on and from the refuse of the super-metropolis of Manila (population 12 million). Learn more...
Systemic change: pumping water as child’s play

Systemic change: pumping water as child’s play

by John Freund, CM | Sep 30, 2007 | Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses

The “play pump” supplies safe drinking water from a deep borehole every time children take a spin. For $7000 (US) and within just a few hours, one device can be installed to serve 2,500 people. So inventive, so cost-efficient, so much fun for the kids...
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