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Realities of Today’s World

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.

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Realities of Today’s World

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  1. Realities of Today’s World

  2. Contemporary Forms Of Poverty Causes: • Conflicts / Wars • Migration • HIV / AIDS • Displacement of • Indigenous people • Gender inequality • Child Trafficking

  3. Most often affected by poverty: • Women • Children

  4. Globalization Global Village Integration of markets, communications and peoples Increasing consciousness of common humanity

  5. Positive implications of Globalization: • Great potential for world unity • Strong incentive for collaboration with many peoples, cultures and nations

  6. 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.

  7. Rapid Communication And Information We are all wired together in an invisible way.

  8. Quick, reliable and updated information Sometimes, data are accepted uncritically

  9. A wonderful means towards sharing our experiences with the poor

  10. Religiosity Amidst Secularization

  11. Religiosity Amidst Consumerism

  12. Concern For Development And Empowerment OF THE POOR • Eradicate extreme poverty and • hunger UN Millennium Development Goals • Achieve universal primary • education • Promote gender equality and • empower women • Combat HIV / AIDS • Develop global partnership

  13. 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

  14. Challenges For The Vincentian Family

  15. CHALLENGES • Understand the new forms of poverty and attack their causes. AIC: Against poverty and its causes, to act together

  16. Challenges • Sharpen our global mentality Know more about your own association on the local, national, and international levels. Attend / organize meetings, encounters, conferences.

  17. Challenges • Sharpen our global mentality Maintain close communication with other branches of the Vincentian Family. Vincentian Family Office in Rome: famvin@tin.it

  18. www.famvin.org

  19. Publications, bulletins, periodicals Vincentiana Vinpaz Echoes of the Company Asi@news Caminos de Misión like a great fire Revista JMV

  20. Annual Meeting of Heads of Some Branches of the Vincentian Family International (since 1995) Rome or Paris

  21. Challenges • Deepen and share our Vincentian spirituality which is the solid foundation of our service to the poor.

  22. Share our distinctive perspective on the poor: they can and do evangelize us too.

  23. CHALLENGES • Collaborate on projects for the poor with the various branches of the Vincentian Family.

  24. 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!!

  25. Collaborate with other Church groups, institutes, associations and similar organizations.

  26. Collaborate with different national and international organizations.

  27. 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)

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