| Projects and Places
Over the 15 years of the programme, there have been communities in different cities at different times, London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle,
Birkenhead and Hull. This depends on where we are asked for volunteers, how many volunteers we have and what accommodation is available. There are
many kinds of poverty and through the volunteers we are able to reach out to:
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Blind and partially sighted children
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Adults who are faced with blindness in their maturity,
or when they are old
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Young people and those who are spiritually poor
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People who are hungry and homeless
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Addicts who lose contact with 'normal' life
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Families who find it hard to cope
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Children who are neglected
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Refugees and travellers, who suffer rejection
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Prisoners and their families
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Those who are lonely or housebound
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TRAINING PROVIDED ON THE JOB AND IN FIVE WEEKENDS DURING THE YEAR
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teaching you about
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community, prayer and service
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Around our cities we often see people begging. God alone knows the despair in their lives. Sometimes they are drunk, sometimes
offensive, sometimes abusive. Vincent de Paul would not ask if they deserved help, but if they needed it.
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That is the question we must ask too.
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If you are accepted for the programme, you must be present for the opening
of the Introductory Week.
If you arrive late, you will have lost
your place as a Vincentian Volunteer for the year 2008 to 2009.
The
Introductory Week will begin on
Monday
1st September 2008 in the
UK.
Detailed information will be given to those who are accepted.
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Application forms and further
details about the Vincentian Volunteer Programme can be obtained from:
Director : Sister Barbara Quilty DC
St Wilfird's
4 Birchvale Close
Hulme
Manchester
M15 5BJ
Tel: 0161 273 6881
e-mail: info@vincentianvolunteers.org
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