realities of today’s world
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Realities of Today’s 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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: [email protected]
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)