Global Partnership Subcommittee
|
Goal/Mission: Promote the Common Good -- whatever is best for the whole human family, through prayer, education, and advocacy.
|
Two main focuses of the Global Partnership Subcommittee are:
1) Immigration and 2) United Nations Millennium Development Goals
Immigration - The five principles for Comprehensive Immigration Reform as supported by the United States Catholic Bishops are:
- To make family a priority in immigration law;
- To insist the worker programs contain protection for U.S. and migrant workers;
-
To allow for an earned legalization program for the undocumented in the country;
-
To restore due process protections;
-
To respond to the economic, political, and social root causes of migration.
Websites:
The
United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are:
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
- Achieve universal primary education;
- Promote gender equality and empower women;
- Reduce child mortality;
- Improve maternal health;
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases;
- Ensure environmental stability;
- Develop global partnership for development.
The MDGs were adopted by 189 countries at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 with a deadline of 2015 to achieve the MDGs.
Websites:
Join with other individuals and groups (parishes, schools, religious communities, etc.) by
signing up to be part of one million Catholic voices raised up to confront global poverty. Go to
usccb.org/globalpoverty/ to sign up.
The Ending Homeless Subcommittee is engaged in many activities in support of the Kent County Coalition to End Homelessness including the following:
-
Participation in Project Homeless Connect, an event sponsored by the Kent County Coalition to End Homelessness, which began in January 2008 and will serve more than 700 attendees who are homeless or in a housing crisis.