by annaread | Nov 12, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
On Monday the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria committed more than $1.1 billion US to 73 projects. More than two-thirds of these funds are earmarked for projects in Africa. Read more.
by John Freund, CM | Nov 10, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
The 12th annual Newman C. Eberhardt, C.M. Lecture at Saint John’s Seminary in California is titled “Disfigurement and Reconfiguration: The Contribution of Jean Vanier and L’Arche to a Renewed Social Order”. The series, named in honor of Newman...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 10, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
A young woman joined the Vincentian Lay Missionaries for service Jimma, Ethiopia. Her month of service included teaching English, as she expected. But “the Daughters of Charity main mission was providing a better life for families living in two leper...
by annaread | Nov 8, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Using mobile phone games to improve HIV/AIDS awareness in Asia and Africa — well, it isn’t something most of us would have thought of. Which is just the point of the “Why Games Matter: A Prescription for Improving Health and Health Care”...
by annaread | Nov 6, 2007 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In 2008 the Daughters of Charity will open a health center to serve the Bywater and Ninth Ward neighborhoods. Tehe American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress recently pitched in at the new site, as mentioned here recently. The New Orleans business newspaper has...
