Can the young members prioritise the forms of poverty to be found in their surroundings? Please provide a list.
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INTERNATIONAL VINCENTIAN YOUTH STUDY DAYS International Confederation of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul General Council
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1.children/elders who are lack of caring
2.people who are suffering from diseases, cancer
3.people who are discriminated by the society
1.Hunger
2.Shelter
3.Education
4.Medical care
That is the current prioritasation in our conference, but some few years back we had medical care above education,but the cost of medicines in our country has just risen such that 2 prescription for antibiotics for children may equal the cost of providing shelter for 10 or more families, so we are forced to put it at the bottom so we can help more people.
1.Little or no access to proper medical care
2.Hunger and homelessness
3. Child sex trade
4.Loneliness, especially by elderly, socially displaced and differently abled.
5.Spiritual poverty by persons who do not believe in God and those who fail to accept the things that God has done for them.
people without food and clothing
homeless
those in need of medical attention
protection of children/ elderly
those in need of education
prostitution
rehabilitation of drug abuse/alcohol abuse
1. lack care for the elderly
2. unemployment of youths
3. poverty due to illness - HIV
4. country's overall economic situations
In North and East it is to uplift the lives of the people in the refugee camps and to resettle them in their homes when the civil war is over.
Rest of the country, as for the young members and the following list would be different for the members who are aged above 40 where they feel shelter should come first.
1. Education
2. Abortions
3. Shelter
4. Elders’ homes
5. Consequences of inflation
1.Hunger and homelessness
2.Indifference towards the issues that does not directly affect them.
3.Lack of care for the elderly/Loneliness
4.Depression
5.Social Inequalities.
6.Medical care
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