Located in Lille, the Frédéric Ozanam centre has been open since 2002, 5 days a week. Its mission is to welcome, listen, provide counseling and guidance to various people who have lost their way, mostly men with no income or “RMI”  beneficiaries (Revenu minimum d’insertion: a social welfare benefit granted to certain people with no income). It also offers many services.

Doing

9/30/2008

Following the disastrous effects of the war, the SSVP in the Lebanon undertook this project in a village in the south of the country, Ain-Ebel. It was part of the Society’s global effort to give independence to families in rural areas,  particularly effective in this conflict-ridden region, where whole groups of people, especially Christians, are being driven into exile.

Doing

9/11/2008

The Ozanam Eye Center is an eye hospital situated in the premises of Quilon Diocese.  It is a joint project of the SSVP Quilon Central Council, the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (RCBS) and the Catholic Diocese of Quilon.

Doing

9/2/2008

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Chile runs eight grant-aided private schools. These provide free or shared funding education, depending on the socio-economic situation of each family involved.

Doing

5/27/2008

Our Society is doing wonderful work in the camps of the displaced where tens of thousands of displaced are living in 5 camps.

Doing

4/9/2008