by John Freund, CM | Mar 17, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, Formation, Justice and Peace, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
As we previously announced, the Vincentian Family will be commemorating the 350th anniversary of the deaths of St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louise de Marillac by launching Zafen.org. This joint project will enable people throughout the world to contribute to...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 17, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, Formation, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Systemic change, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
As part of our worldwide celebration, the Vincentian Family has initiated a project, Zafen.org, in partnership with Fonkoze, the largest microfinance institution in Haiti, to empower sustainable, economic development in Haiti. Zafen, Creole for “It’s our business,”...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 15, 2010 | Collaboration, Daughters of Charity, Formation, Justice and Peace, Missions inter gentes, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
I am S. Kathleen Natwin and I am one of the Councilors of the Albany Province of the Daughters of Charity. We have a Province in Haiti (see famvin story) … we have been asking our Sisters to direct donations to the Province in Haiti. An easier way of doing this...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 15, 2010 | Collaboration, Disasters and Responses, Formation, Justice and Peace, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Thus writes conservative commentator David Brooks in the New York Times. There is much food for thought for the Vincentian Family efforts at collaboration in Haiti.
by John Freund, CM | Jan 1, 2010 | Daughters of Charity, Formation, Vincentian Family
… it will never be too late to give meaningful, self-sustaining gifts to support the people they work with in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, etc. Click on the graphic at the left of this post to see some of these gifts featured on the website of the Irish Daughters...
