Realities of Today’s World

Contemporary Forms Of Poverty

Causes: • Conflicts / Wars• Migration

• Gender inequality • Child Trafficking

• Displacement of Indigenous people

• HIV / AIDS

Most often affected by poverty:

• Women • Children

Globalization

Integration of markets, communications and

peoples

Global Village

Increasing consciousness of common humanity

• Strong incentive for collaboration with many peoples, cultures and nations

Positive implications of Globalization:

• Great potential for world unity

Negative implications of Globalization:

• Possible loss of national and cultural distinctiveness

• Unequal distribution of resources

• Powerful nations tend to dominate the smaller ones who cannot keep up.

Rapid Communication And Information

We are all wired together in an invisible way.

Quick, reliable and updated information

Sometimes, data are accepted uncritically

A wonderful means towards sharing our experiences with the poor

Religiosity Amidst Secularization

Religiosity Amidst Consumerism

Concern For Development And Empowerment OF THE POOR

UN Millennium Development

Goals

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Achieve universal primary education • Promote gender equality and empower women • Combat HIV / AIDS

• Develop global partnership

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

AND Philanthropy

Bono

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

Challenges For The Vincentian Family

CHALLENGES

Understand the new forms of poverty and attack their causes.

AIC: Against poverty and its causes, to act together

ChallengesSharpen our

global mentality

Know more about your own association on the

local, national, and international levels.

Attend / organize meetings, encounters, conferences.

ChallengesSharpen our

global mentality

Maintain close communication

with other branches of the Vincentian

Family.

Vincentian Family Office in Rome: famvin@tin.it

www.famvin.org

like a great fire

Publications, bulletins, periodicals

Vincentiana Vinpaz

Asi@news Echoes of the Company

Caminos de Misión

Revista JMV

Annual Meeting of Heads of Some Branches of the Vincentian Family International (since

1995)

Rome or Paris

Challenges

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.

CHALLENGESCollaborate 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!!

Collaborate with other

Church groups, institutes,

associations and similar

organizations.

Collaborate with different national and international

organizations.

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)