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Realities of Today’s WorldRealities of Today’s World
Contemporary Forms Of Poverty
Contemporary Forms Of Poverty
Causes:
• Conflicts / Wars
• Migration
• Gender inequality
• Child Trafficking
• Displacement of Indigenous people
• HIV / AIDS
Most often affected by poverty: Most often affected by poverty:
• Women• Women • Children• Children
GlobalizationGlobalization
Integration of markets, communications and
peoples
Integration of markets, communications and
peoples
Global VillageGlobal Village
Increasing consciousness of common humanity
Increasing consciousness of common humanity
• Strong incentive for collaboration with many peoples, cultures and nations
• Strong incentive for collaboration with many peoples, cultures and nations
Positive implications of Globalization:
• Great potential for world unity• Great potential for world unity
Negative implications of Globalization:
• Possible loss of national and cultural distinctiveness
• Possible loss of national and cultural distinctiveness
• Unequal distribution of resources• Unequal distribution of resources
• Powerful nations tend to dominate the smaller ones who cannot keep up.
• Powerful nations tend to dominate the smaller ones who cannot keep up.
Rapid Communication And Information
Rapid Communication And Information
We are all wired together in an invisible way.
We are all wired together in an invisible way.
Quick, reliable and updated information
Quick, reliable and updated information
Sometimes, data are accepted uncritically
Sometimes, data are accepted uncritically
A wonderful means towards sharing our experiences with the poor
A wonderful means towards sharing our experiences with the poor
Religiosity Amidst Secularization
Religiosity Amidst Secularization
Religiosity Amidst Consumerism
Religiosity Amidst Consumerism
Concern For Development And Empowerment OF THE POOR
Concern For Development And Empowerment OF THE POOR
UN Millennium Development
Goals
• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education • Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women • Promote gender equality and empower women
• Combat HIV / AIDS• Combat HIV / AIDS
• Develop global partnership • Develop global partnership
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
AND Philanthropy
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
AND Philanthropy
BonoBono
Gates Foundation
Gates Foundation
“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is a human creation and it can be overcome and eradicated by actions of human beings.” Nelson Mandela
“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is a human creation and it can be overcome and eradicated by actions of human beings.” Nelson Mandela
Challenges For The Vincentian Family
Challenges For The Vincentian Family
CHALLENGESCHALLENGES
Understand the new forms of poverty and attack their causes.
Understand the new forms of poverty and attack their causes.
AIC: Against poverty and its causes, to act together
AIC: Against poverty and its causes, to act together
ChallengesChallenges
Sharpen our global mentality
Know more about your own association on the
local, national, and international levels.
Know more about your own association on the
local, national, and international levels.
Attend / organize meetings, encounters, conferences.
Attend / organize meetings, encounters, conferences.
ChallengesChallenges
Sharpen our global mentality
Sharpen our global mentality
Maintain close communication
with other branches of the Vincentian
Family.
Maintain close communication
with other branches of the Vincentian
Family.
Vincentian Family Office in Rome: famvin@tin.itVincentian Family Office in Rome: famvin@tin.it
www.famvin.org
like a great firelike a great fire
Publications, bulletins, periodicalsPublications, bulletins, periodicals
VincentianaVincentiana VinpazVinpaz
Asi@newsAsi@news Echoes of the CompanyEchoes of the Company
Caminos de MisiónCaminos de Misión
Revista JMVRevista JMV
Annual Meeting of Heads of Some Branches of the Vincentian Family International (since
1995)
Annual Meeting of Heads of Some Branches of the Vincentian Family International (since
1995)
Rome or ParisRome or Paris
ChallengesChallenges
Deepen and share our Vincentian spirituality which is the solid foundation of our service to the poor.
Deepen and share our Vincentian spirituality which is the solid foundation of our service to the poor.
Share our distinctive perspectiv
e on the poor: they
can and do evangelize
us too.
Share our distinctive perspectiv
e on the poor: they
can and do evangelize
us too.
CHALLENGESCHALLENGES
Collaborate on projects for the poor with the various branches of the Vincentian Family.
Collaborate on projects for the poor with the various branches of the Vincentian Family.
Our Family has more than 2
million members from all sectors
of society. Imagine the
good that we can bring about,
if our branches join hands in
helping the poor!!
Our Family has more than 2
million members from all sectors
of society. Imagine the
good that we can bring about,
if our branches join hands in
helping the poor!!
Collaborate with other
Church groups, institutes,
associations and similar
organizations.
Collaborate with other
Church groups, institutes,
associations and similar
organizations.
Collaborate with different national and international
organizations.
Collaborate with different national and international
organizations.
St. Vincent tells us:St. Vincent tells us:
“God loves the poor, and consequently He loves those who love the poor. . . Now, this (family) strives to devote itself lovingly to the service of the poor, who are God’s well-beloved, and so we have reason to hope that, for love of them, God will love us. Let us go, then, my brothers (and sisters) and devote ourselves with new love to serve the poor, and even seek out the poorest and most abandoned; let us confess before God that they are our lords and masters and we are unworthy to render them our little services.” (January 1657)
“God loves the poor, and consequently He loves those who love the poor. . . Now, this (family) strives to devote itself lovingly to the service of the poor, who are God’s well-beloved, and so we have reason to hope that, for love of them, God will love us. Let us go, then, my brothers (and sisters) and devote ourselves with new love to serve the poor, and even seek out the poorest and most abandoned; let us confess before God that they are our lords and masters and we are unworthy to render them our little services.” (January 1657)
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