by John Freund, CM | Nov 27, 2012 | Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
VINNIES (SVDP Australia) has slammed the Government and the Opposition for driving single mothers deeper into poverty. Centrelink officers have taken to telling single mothers they should seek help from charities once welfare payments stop in January, The...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 18, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Already Desperate, Haitians Hopeless After Sandy According to the New York Times… As if the quake were not enough, Haiti is now suffering the combined onslaught of storms and, before that, drought, imperiling its food supply, causing $254 million in...
by John Freund, CM | Nov 18, 2012 | Church
World Bank figures show that “there are an extra 52 million children going to school” as governments have been able to invest in education instead of debt repayments. Vatican Radio reports “Irish rocker and anti-poverty campaigner Bono was back in the Vatican...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 30, 2012 | Technology: Issues and Uses
Compassion International Commited to releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name and helping more than 1.2 million children in 26 countries, see the creative way www.compassion.com is using images to tell their story.
by John Freund, CM | Oct 18, 2012 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Please join in Poverty & Homelessness Action Week January 2013 and call for an end to this blame game. Are people to blame for being poor or homeless? Media stereotypes make huge assumptions – benefit claimants don’t want to work; homeless people are...
