by vf-editor | 2019/11/28 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News
The 13 Houses Campaign is one-year-old today! In these 12 months, the Campaign has grown from a single house in Little Rock, Arkansas (USA) to 37 projects in 28 countries. And this is only the beginning! We are expecting 24 new countries to join in the coming months!...
by vf-editor | 2019/11/26 | English, News, Stories
Like almost any other Friday for the last six years, Ramona arrived drunk, hugging and kissing her friends, her breath smelling like cheap rum and drugs. There’s always a volunteer waiting for her at the playground in the St Peter Apostle parish school, to listen...
by vf-editor | 2019/11/20 | English, News
What would St Vincent de Paul have thought about the World’s Big Sleep Out? It seems a long way from his view of charity, a quiet and loving activity of service. He would doubtless have supported its fundraising purpose – he always saw that money was needed to make...
by vf-editor | 2019/11/07 | English, News
Last week, Yasmine Cajuste, the FHA Project Development Manager, gave the lecture “A Voice of the Vincentian Laity: The Haiti Initiative and the FamVin Homeless Alliance” at the Center for World Catholicism & Intercultural Theology (CWCIT) in DePaul University in...
by vf-editor | 2019/10/29 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, English, News
My name is Flore and I am from a humble family from Côte d’Ivoire. When I was 17 years old, my life changed. My mum passed away during the 2002 civil war, and then I started a journey that took me far away from everything and everybody. After her death, life was...
