by vf-editor | 2020/06/30 | English, News, Stories
In 2015, I had the chance to spend Easter with a Vincentian youth group in the community of Palmas del Río, in El Roble parish, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Each day we would walk twenty to thirty minutes from the church hall into the village, and from there, we would...
by vf-editor | 2020/06/24 | covid19, English, News
Vincentians across the world have stepped up to the challenge of COVID-19. From soup kitchens in Peru to preventing the spread of the virus in the slums of the Philippines or offering financial and spiritual support for refugees in Rwanda, Vincentians replied to the...
by vf-editor | 2020/04/28 | covid19, English, News
“My name is Véronique and I am 91 years old. I have been in the Mahama Refugee Camp in Rwanda since 2015 with my granddaughter. She takes care of me. In the five years that I have been here, life has not been easy. There is not a single day that I have had...
by vf-editor | 2020/04/09 | 13 Houses Campaign, covid19, English, News
The world is currently in the midst of a period of great difficulty due to the onset of the coronavirus. Since March 14th, Rwanda has been under lockdown in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the country. This includes the Mahama Refugee Camp, where our...
by vf-editor | 2020/01/29 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News
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...
