by vf-editor | 2023/02/24 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News
‘It only took two weeks to go from poverty to absolute homelessness in Honduras and Guatemala’. (BBC, 2020) Through these few words, we can already feel the catastrophic effects of hurricanes Eta and Iota that devastated Central America in 2020. The...
by vf-editor | 2023/02/24 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News, Uncategorized
Billions of people experience homelessness in the world (1), and its causes and forms are diverse. Therefore, it requires answers that go beyond providing a home but which also include wider and more holistic aspects. For example, the provision of psychological...
by vf-editor | 2023/01/27 | 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News
Fourteen million people fled their homes in search of safety and more than 800,000 homes have been destroyed: frightening numbers that have been seen in Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022 to today (UNHCR). The Vincentian Family has showed great...
by vf-editor | 2023/01/06 | 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News, Philippines 2022
According to data from the Philippines’ National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), Super Typhoon Rai (local name Odette) which hit a large part of the Philippines on 16 December 2021 resulted to around 405 casualties and 78 missing people....
by vf-editor | 2022/11/28 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News
Anyone can suddenly end up with no place to call home, but homelessness doesn’t affect everyone in the same way, with the experience of women completely different to the experience of men. (CYREANS, 2021). Whilst men are more likely to sleep rough or to make use of...
by vf-editor | 2022/10/27 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the largest country of the Melanesian Region in the South Pacific and ranks among the most culturally diverse worldwide, home to approximately 8.8 million people and 840+ ethno-linguistic groups (World Bank 2019). PNG remains close to the...
