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Goal: End Homelessness!
Diaries of a Vincentian: Rocco
I knew him as Rocco, his nickname. Every week, we’d chat. His ‘patch’ was outside Sainsbury’s, the main supermarket in Cambridge. He sat unimposing, legs crossed, greying beard. He always wore a woollen hat, even when the sun was shining. Rocco was up early and stayed late, when he’d go off to...
Vincentians in Nigeria join the fight against homelessness
The Vincentian Family in Nigeria has decided to focus their work on homelessness after their annual meeting in Lagos last month. In the meeting, where six branches were present, the Vincentian Family decided to build at least one house for homeless people this year and to advocate for the homeless...
Vincentian Sisters empowering women in Ethiopia
For several years now, a new branch of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St Vincent de Paul in Untermarchtal has been in development in Ethiopia through the engagement of Bishop Leonardus Dobbelaar - a Vincentian from the Netherlands. Today, the 12 Ethiopian Sisters support and accompany...
UK government appoints FHA Commission member Dame Louise Casey to lead a review into rough sleeping
FHA Commission member Dame Louise Casey has been appointed by the UK Prime Minister to lead a review into rough sleeping in the country. "Homelessness, and within that rough sleeping, is something that causes misery, so I hope that I will be able to help the government and the country expedite...
Watch the new 13 Houses video!
The “13 Houses” Campaign is changing the lives of homeless people all around the world thanks to the collaboration between Vincentian branches. A few months ago, we brought you Abundio and his family’s story from Hueyapan, Mexico, and the work carried out by all the VF branches on the country...
The UN introduces homelessness on the agenda thanks to Vincentian advocacy
The UN has adopted the first resolution defining homelessness and asking countries to measure it. For the first time in its 75 years, the UN is considering homelessness as a mainstream policy issue. The work of the Vincentians has been crucial in helping to achieve this watershed moment. The...
Vincentians helping to develop Catholic Social Teaching on Homelessness
Members of the Famvin Homeless Alliance and broader Vincentian Family are helping to develop Catholic Social Teaching in the area of homelessness. They feature prominently as authors in Street Homelessness and Catholic Social Ethics, a collection of papers published by Orbis Press. This book,...
The Sisters of Mercy spread the Vincentian spark among young women in Tanzania
In 1960, four Sisters of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St Vincent de Paul in Untermarchtal set out to serve Christ through their neighbours in the southwest of Tanzania, in line with their spiritual calling. The spark of Vincentian spirituality spread to local young women in Tanzania...
From Lebanon to Rwanda – in solidarity with refugees
The chaplaincy of the Mahama Burundian refugee camp received a visit from the Lebanese Missionary group for Charity from the 15th to the 25th of August last year. The visit was part of a collaboration inside the Famvin Homeless Alliance but also among FHA ambassadors for the “13 Houses” Campaign....