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Goal: End Homelessness!
“Journeying Together”
In 2021, the Catholic Church began a synodal process - a journey that has the whole Church reflect on the theme: “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission”. The word “synod” indicates the path along which the People of God walk together. It means “journeying together” while...
Renewing hope: accompanying people who are refugees on their journey
A mother bends down to bury her own child, killed by the violence of war. A family mourns in pain after losing their home destroyed by the bombs. Dozens of people killed as a boat sinks off the coast. A father hopes to soon reunite with his daughter and wife, separated during a journey towards a...
From Ghana to Seville: Doris’s journey, a mother, a friend, a sister
My name is Doris Agyapomaa, I am 24 years old, and I am from Ghana. I have a baby named Raymond, who is 16 months old. He was born in 2022 in Seville. I was born into a Christian family with eight siblings. I remember living in extreme poverty, and not all of us could attend school. I learned what...
The Light of Pentecost of St Louise: responding to God’s call in serving the poor
On the occasion of this month, we want to recall the experience of Pentecost of Saint Louise de Marillac, when on 4th June 1623, St Louise was moved by a deep spiritual insight. She tells us: “I was advised... that a time would come when I would be in a position to make vows of poverty, chastity...
The Cry of Street Children across the World: How the Vincentian Family is Responding
Poverty affects everyone including children, in fact, they are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than adults[1]. Poverty is not only economic but is multidimensional, affecting fundamental rights including education, adequate housing, and access to drinking water[2]. Following the...
Protecting Children’s Rights in the Netherlands
According to recent figures published by Statistics Netherlands (CBS)[1], 209,000 children in the Netherlands are living at risk of poverty, with their parents earning a salary below the national low-income threshold. The ‘Team against Poverty’ in Tilburg – with the help of many volunteers and...
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 in Colombia does not have a...
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 extend a particular invitation to...
Losing everything in an instant: A new home after the hurricanes Eta and Iota in Honduras
'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 natural disaster affected both rural communities...