
Noreen Von Zwehl, President
MESSAGE FROM NOREEN VON ZWEHL,
PRESIDENT, M.A.N. FOUNDATION
I would like to welcome Detective Steven McDonald, who joins the M.A.N.
foundation as a Trustee. Detective McDonald,
a member of the New York City Police Department, was shot while on duty
and paralyzed from the neck down. His story of
forgiving his young assailant is told in Johann Christoph Arnolds book
'WHY FORGIVE?'
We welcome Steve and look forward to his support in our worldwide efforts
to help mankind.
Noreen Von Zwehl, President
M.A.N. Foundation
IONA COLLEGE PRESENTS
HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE TO:
Noreen Von Zwehl
President and Founder of the M.A.N. Foundation

Noreen Von Zwehl founded the M.A.N. Foundation with the help of her
husband, Joseph, and friends on October 1, 1993 following in the footsteps
of the Von Zwehl's Catholic family tradition of deep involvement in
charity work. Noreen had been involved for many years in serving the
church and those in spiritual and material need locally, and in 1993
she committed to spreading her works globally; it was then that she
founded the M.A.N. Foundation.
Mrs. Von Zwehl has supported numerous projects, from feeding the hungry
in New York and Florida to constructing more than 20 churches, convents,
schools and medical facilities in Vietnam, China and other poor nations.
Through her foundation, over 400 rosary altar kits and more than 200,000
rosaries, as well as Bibles and other religious books, have been distributed
to nursing homes and mission areas throughout the world, and shrines
for prayer and worship have been built as close to us as Edmeston, New
York and as far away as Mexico and Kenya. Seminarians are being supported
to help meet the need for priests, as are teachers at the Binh Gia Lang
School in Vietnam.
Noreen attended New York Community College in Brooklyn, as well as C.
W. Post College on Long Island. She and her husband live in Muttontown,
Long Island, and have six children and nine grandchildren.
On May 17th, 2003, Iona College conferred upon her the degree of Doctor
of Humane Letters, honoris causa.
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Noreen
and Joseph Von Zwehl with Bishop Pedro Pablo Elizondo, LC of Cancun, Mexico (February,
2008).
The M.A.N. Foundation to-date has supported the construction of 2 churches
with 4 more currently being built in Mexico.

" MAN President, Noreen Von Zwehl meeting and
discussing Rosa Mystcia with the Archbishop of Turkey; Archbishop Ruggero
Franceschini"
left to right: Noreen Von Zwehl, Archbishop Ruggero
Franceschini, Jeanette Doer

“M.A.N. President Noreen Von Zwehl on a recent
visit with the
Auxiliary Bishop of Montreal, Most Rev. Andre Gazaille.”