by John Freund, CM | Oct 7, 2010 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. Unsafe water and a lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all disease and kill more people than all forms of violence, including war. And this is a concern of many members of the...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 16, 2010 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
The creator of Farmville, Zynga, has raised more than $3.6 million for Haiti. Mark Pincus, Zynga’s founder and CEO, calls this “solidarity not charity.” Zynga describes this approach to giving back in this way: “Solidarity not charity is a...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 23, 2010 | Vincentian Family
The $152 million St. Jopseph-London will employ some 1,000 employees in the 340,000 square-foot building with 120 patient rooms, six surgical suites and five heart catheterization laboratories… One of the items from a 1946 London newspaper , “Mr. H.V....
by John Freund, CM | Jun 14, 2010 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
In “The creative power of sand therapy ” Sr. Louise McEvaddy D.C. writes on the Irish DC website “Sand Therapy is now used worldwide in counselling children and adults; it is a useful, creative, technique and has an established place in most children...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 4, 2010 | Daughters of Charity, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
In the past 45 days, Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans has opened two health clinics in a city desperate for preventative care services. Its 24,000-square-foot facility in the former home of St. Cecilia School in the Bywater opened April 30 followed by the...
