by vf-editor | 2024/01/28 | "13 Stories"
In the middle of the sea, a father and a four-year-old girl huddle together on a small boat that won’t stop letting water in. A father who doesn’t give up even though his world, his family, and the doctors seem to have abandoned him to his fate: Kadija, the...
by vf-editor | 2021/10/20 | 13 Houses Campaign, English, News
Hadeeja can finally smile. And she does it while holding the “13 Houses” Campaign plaque in front of her new house with her three sons and her daughter. For this widow and mother of four living in Mtindu, Tanzania, the Campaign has represented a chance for a new...
by vf-editor | 2020/09/29 | English, News, Stories
At the end of March this year we were told, all of a sudden, that we – Sr. Lucia, Sr. Dorothea, Sr. Zeituni and I – had to leave Kenya as soon as possible. The Corona Pandemic had spread unexpectedly quickly. The news took the four of us by surprise. Sr....
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 | 2020/05/21 | 13 Houses Campaign, 13 Houses Campaign Bulletin, covid19, English, News
In his April 2020 Letter to Popular Movements, Pope Francis says to them: “you are social poets because, from the forgotten peripheries where you live, you create admirable solutions for the most pressing problems afflicting the marginalized”. As States declared a...
