Vincentian Service Corps

...a year of service makes a lifetime of difference

The Need: Poverty

There is an incredible need among the people here in

St. Louis! You can help create a more just society and
be an example of Christ to the poor at your SERVICE SITE
through the VSC!

Poverty in St. Louis & Missouri

480,000 people in Missouri do not know where their next meal will come from. 160,000 of these people (1/3) are children under the age of 12.
Every 41 minutes a child in Missouri is born into poverty. In 2006, 39% of kids under 18 were living in poverty in St. Louis.
Every 54 minutes a child in Missouri is abused or neglected.
In 2006, 27% of all people in St. Louis were living in poverty, a rate nearly THREE TIMES the national average.
St. Louis City is the 7th highest among all counties in terms of poverty rate in the United States.

“We should assist the poor in every way, and do it both by ourselves and by enlisting the help of others.”

~St. Vincent de Paul