This document discusses the realities of poverty in today's world, including its various contemporary forms caused by conflicts, migration, disease, and the displacement of indigenous people. It also addresses globalization and its positive and negative implications. The document emphasizes the need to understand new forms of poverty, collaborate with various organizations to help the poor, and deepen our Vincentian spirituality as the foundation of our service. It concludes by quoting St. Vincent de Paul on serving the poor.

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
UN Millennium • Eradicate extreme poverty and
Development hunger
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.” Gates
Nelson Mandela 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
Asi@news Company
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)