by John Freund, CM | Oct 15, 2010 | Collaboration
4,641 Blogs, in 134 Countries, reaching 34,698,241 Readers – Blog Action Day focuses on water. There have been some recent posts on famvin about water but for those of you who want to dig deeper into the often shocking, disheartening, yet hopeful issues around...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 8, 2010 | Collaboration
For starters … more people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. Calling all Vincentian Family bloggers! Blog Action Day is devoted to raising our consciousness. More than 2,200 bloggers from 113 different countries have already registered to blog about...
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 | Jun 26, 2009 | Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Imagine if New York City’s taps went dry. What would we do? Jennifer Connelly walks to New York’s Central Park to get dirty water for her family as millions of mothers in Africa do every day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhtjOnp2G8
by John Freund, CM | Mar 11, 2009 | Collaboration, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Vincentian Family
Two Vincentians are traveling to Ecuador to bring clean water filtration technology known as BioSand filtration. With this process most common home-based models can produce between 20 and 60 litres of water per hour. The process is certified by the Center of...
