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)