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Goal: End Homelessness!
Diaries of a Vincentian: A place to call “home”
What had seemed a reasonable choice of clothing just a few hours ago had quickly turned into regret as I squeezed myself through a tiny hole in a wire fence – trying not to shred my long, wavy summer skirt on the surrounding, serrated edges; or cutting my skin for that matter. Once everybody had...
Who is my neighbour?
Homily by Father Ricardo Cruz CM, FHA ambassador, read on Sunday 14th July in the St Vincent de Paul Chapel in Paris during the ambassador's gathering. “We have to tender for the poor as we run to extinguish a fire” (SVP) Beloved brothers: I thank God for giving me the opportunity to preside this...
The FHA volunteer ambassadors come together for the first time
The FHA volunteer ambassadors gathered for the first time in July in Paris. They came together for three days of training near the places where St Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac lived and worked. The ambassadors are now back in their countries, ready to spread the word about the Alliance’s...
Presenting the FHA to the Vincentian Family in Central America
The FHA ambassadors work in a wide range of projects all over the world supporting homeless people. Father Luis Camarena CM attended the meeting of the Vincentian Family in Central America. The meeting of the Central American Vincentian Famliy (FAVICA) took place on San Salvador, El Salvador,...
The Vincentian advocacy in the UN
The United Nations is including homelessness in its vocabulary for the first time in its 74 years history. This has been achieved thanks to the Vincentian political advocacy alongside other civil society organisations through the NGO Working Group to End Homelessness (WGEH). Because the UN has...
Our Strategic Plan 2019-2021
“Go then, courageously advancing moment by moment along the path on which God has placed you in order to reach Him.” Louise de Marillac When the Famvin Homeless Alliance was created in 2017, we could not have imagined where we would be only two years later. By 2019, we had developed a website and...
When in Germany
A few months back, Mark McGreevy and I had the privilege of being invited to the Megvis Conference in Untermarchtal, Germany, to speak about the work of the Famvin Homeless Alliance and the 13 Houses Campaign. The conference brings together the primarily German-speaking Vincentian congregations to...
Welcoming the Stranger in Guatemala City
The FHA ambassadors work in a wide range of projects all over the world supporting homeless people. Father Luis Camarena CM describes the work carried out in Guatemala City, in the shelter “I was a stranger”. As a result of the commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of the Vincentian Charisma...
The FHA takes parts on the Vincentian advocacy at the UN
“You need to live it to know it”. With these powerful words Iris Bailey, who was homeless for 18 months, moved the attendants of the open dialogue organised by the UN NGO Working Group to End Homelessness (WGEH) last week in New York, in which the FHA staff and Commission members took part. Among...