Realities of Todays World

Contemporary Forms Of Poverty

Causes:
Conflicts / Wars Migration HIV / AIDS Displacement of Indigenous people Gender inequality Child Trafficking

Most often affected by poverty:

Women

Children

Globalization
Global Village
Integration of markets, communications and peoples

Increasing consciousness of common humanity

Positive implications of Globalization:

Great potential for world unity Strong incentive for collaboration with many peoples, cultures and nations

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 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

Gates Foundation

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

Challenges
Sharpen our global mentality
Know more about your own association on the local, national, and international levels.

Attend / organize meetings, encounters, conferences.

Challenges
Sharpen our global mentality
Maintain close communication with other branches of the Vincentian Family.

Vincentian Family Office in Rome: famvin@tin.it

www.famvin.org

Publications, bulletins, periodicals

Vincentiana
Asi@news Vinpaz
Echoes of the Company

Caminos de Misin

like a great fire

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 perspective on the poor: they can and do evangelize us too.

CHALLENGES
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!!

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 Gods 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)