by John Freund, CM | Mar 17, 2011 | Vincentian Family
Depaul Kharkiv expands to support more homeless people in need across Ukraine. A subsidiary charity of Depaul International, has begun work in Odessa southern Ukraine, expanding its services outside of Kharkiv (Ukraine’s second largest city) for the first time since...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 12, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
So how could an iPad (or similar tablet) help a homeless person find permanent housing? The website Poverty Insights offers some suggestions how access to an iPad could be life changing. For many people who encounter homeless persons on a daily basis, a handheld...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 11, 2011 | Vincentian Family
One of the consequences of the recession that you don’t hear a lot about is the record number of children descending into poverty. Those children would be the largest American generation to be raised in hard times since the Great Depression. It’s hard to...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 5, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
It is so easy. Click, click. Point. Tag. Retweet. “Click-activism”! Just a few motions with my index finger and I am changing the world.Press that “like” button. Join that Facebook group. In a fraction of a second, I am saving the environment from the...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 5, 2011 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Poverty statistics in a one minute video presentation which puts poverty in the developed world into perspective. This video offers a simplified and visually engaging way to think about global poverty as the distance between the 231 peope who live...
