11. Act Locally: Reflect Start with your own experience Who do you walk with? What to you see? What are you called to do? What is the challenge? What are systems that surround your people? What causes the poverty? What will transform it and the lives of the people? Who can help?
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21. To work as Vincentian Family, having persons who live in poverty at the center of our projects, we seek to work first on ourselves, with a renewed mentality and wider perspectives, to be transformed ourselves, in order to transform others. Commission for promoting Systemic Change
Editor's Notes
Refer back to mandate Pratical concrete and effective
Systems include biological organisms (e.g., the human body), factories, political entities, communities, industries, parishes, orchestras, families, teams – and all organisations. You and your work are probably elements of dozens of different systems.”
Social and political institutions are the context within which individuals and groups live. Context within which we mostly live and work. Social and political institutions are meant to provide the resources people need to survive. People's lives and activities are in large part shaped by the institutions and structures in which they find themselves. Social justice is, in part, a matter of ensuring that these social structures do in fact satisfy basic human needs. In many places, social institutions and structures exploit, exclude and allow for unequal access to resources. Then structural forces create a system of winners and losers in which people get trapped in particular social situations.
What systems might be at work here?
Indiviuals Organisations Systems Church context often confused with ‘judgement’ and ‘unconditional’ Does need change of mentality and emphasis in some cases. Creating dependency Handout cultures Benefit systems/welfare systems.
Local to Madagascar What systems might be at work here? How were they tackled? Ask the jigsaw questions – who do you walk with? What do you see? What are you called to do? What is the challenge?
Same for you – if you had been asked – the stories of your work – your experience and out Spirituality We will reflect more on this.
Jigsaw – a system How conscious are we as part of a whole – whether it’s the rest of our conference, our SVP national identity, our Vincentian identity etc. Role of our- no matter how big or small- contribution is part of a greater whole and many systems are at work. Never-the-less we act very locally and its quality joins up the rest
What about you? Think locally. Recall your experience overall. Think of your own situation now/work –or retired-administrative or direct service –or study –or? School, hospital, desk, residential(career), visitng, running a shop, part of a project, fundraising – all volunteering – SVP work who do you walk with? What do you see? What are you called to do? What is the challenge?
Practical, concrete, effective Taken from our own stories and experience In your folders – 20 of them! Don’t all have to be present in an SC project!! Mission - motivation and direction - Love for Christ in the person of the poor Person - focusing on the poor and the individual - Respect for the dignity of all Task – how – Organisation - Vincent and organisation Partnership for impact Respect for all who work for the alleviation of poverty Vincent and justice Vincent and political action Vincent as a leader of change Commonly held that this is all that SC means – and it is important but is only part. Also widely held that advocacy is separate from practice – causes issues – my experience.
FEMBA 5 – Financial Analysis Slide
FEMBA 5 – Financial Analysis Slide
FEMBA 5 – Financial Analysis Slide
FEMBA 5 – Financial Analysis Slide
FEMBA 5 – Financial Analysis Slide
FEMBA 5 – Financial Analysis Slide
Jigsaw – a system How conscious are we as part of a whole – whether it’s the rest of our conference, our SVP national identity, our Vincentian identity etc. Role of our- no matter how big or small- contribution is part of a greater whole and many systems are at work. Never-the-less we act very locally and its quality joins up the rest