Famvin Homeless Alliance

The Vincentian Family Initiative on Homelessness

The 13 Houses Campaign

A Famvin Homeless Alliance initiative aimed at improving and transform the lives of 10,000 homeless people around the world in 3-5 years

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Goal: End Homelessness!

By word of mouth, the 13 Houses Campaign “travels” to new countries

By word of mouth, the 13 Houses Campaign “travels” to new countries

The 13 Houses Campaign keeps growing: with the launch of the call for proposals on 30 August 2022, we witnessed the Vincentian desire to strengthen a ‘network of charity’ for homeless people that goes beyond geographical borders. The objective of the call was to...

From Venezuela to Colombia: crossing the borders for a better future

From Venezuela to Colombia: crossing the borders for a better future

Since the 2015 economic crisis in Venezuela, Colombia has hosted approximately 1.7 million Venezuelans, representing more than 37% of the approximately 4.6 million Venezuelan refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean.[1] Over half of the Venezuelan population living...

Diaries of a Vincentian: Brazil

Diaries of a Vincentian: Brazil

"The 13 Houses project is much more than the provision of a house; it is giving someone a space in which they can feel like a child of God, a human being and a citizen who has the right to a place to call home." M.F.S, 57 years old, widow, 3rd grade education. She...

Women experiencing homelessness: an invisible reality

Women experiencing homelessness: an invisible reality

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...