by John Freund, CM | Nov 10, 2007 | Evangelization, Featured, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
The Vincentian Family figured prominently in the awarding of over one millions dollars for systemic change projects. On November 8, 2007 Brother Constant Goetschalckx FC of the Brothers of Charity, an international community with deep roots in the Vincentian traditon...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 4, 2007 | Featured, Systemic change
One key to “addressing underlying causes and discovering long-term solutions for poverty” (John Paul II to Vincentians), a process also known as “systemic change”, is recognizing the difference between “hand outs” and “a hand...
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...
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...
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...
