by vf-editor | 2019/03/20 | 13 Houses Campaign, English, News
The Coordinator of the Famvin Homeless Alliance (Mark McGreevy) visited India. The following is one of a short series of reflections on the work the Vincentian Family in India is doing in the field of homelessness and in particular in celebration of the 400th...
by vf-editor | 2019/03/14 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News
Over the past two months, we have shared with you some of the 13 Houses Campaign projects under construction. But there are many more we hope to build in the coming months. Here is Peru’s 13 Houses dream. Peru has almost 1.8 million people in need of a home. Fr Cruz,...
by vf-editor | 2019/02/25 | 13 Houses Campaign, English, News
13 Houses are being built for families who lost their home in the 2017 earthquake in the northeast town of Hueyapan in rural Mexico. The earthquake was so destructive it took rescuers over a week to access to the community. But one year later, many families are still...
by vf-editor | 2019/02/18 | 13 Houses Campaign, English, News
Slum, Favela, Shanty Town… The names are different but the implications are all too often similar. Hundreds of thousands of people living crammed together in a tiny space in or around an urban area. Originally temporary but now morphed into something that feels...
by vf-editor | 2019/02/11 | 13 Houses Campaign, English, News
Winter is here: Tallinn, Estonia: -16° C; Beijing, China: -2° C; Chicago, USA: -12° C; … As the temperatures plummet below freezing across the northern hemisphere, we tuck ourselves a little bit tighter into our warming winter coats. We put on that extra pair of...
by vf-editor | 2019/01/28 | 13 Houses Campaign, English
Kateryna quickly packed her bags in the Luhansk region of Ukraine in September 2015, only taking what was absolutely necessary for herself and her two small daughters. Her hometown had become too dangerous. Constant shelling had destroyed the homes around her. Fleeing...
