As originally published on http://cwsrdu.org/2013/07/16/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-cws-intern/ Today’s guest post comes from Casey Smith, CWS-Durham’s summer case management intern. Casey recently graduated from East Chapel Hill High School where she assisted with day camps for refugee children, events for refugee awareness, and worked to tutor refugee high school students. She will be attending Wesleyan University this fall. We are grateful for her …

Right now, 45 million people in the United States are hungry.  In fact, we can count in weeks the amount of time before even more of our nation’s most vulnerable people – seniors, children, the working poor – face the prospect of going to bed hungry. I have a hard time getting my head around this, because it just doesn’t …

On June 27, the Senate passed The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act with a bipartisan majority of 68 votes for and 32 against. This bill includes a fair pathway to citizenship along with other measures to ensure that individuals have the opportunity to become American citizens. If enacted, this bill would help strengthen communities and create a …

The call to action is simple and compelling: “Whether as an individual, community, business, non-governmental organization (NGO) or a government department, all you have to do on July 18 is donate 67 minutes of your day to doing something good in any way you can. Nelson Mandela gave 67 years of his life to the struggle for social justice. Can …

As originally posted on Bread for the World’s Bread Blog:http://blog.bread.org/2013/07/surviving-is-not-an-option-the-migration-story.html My dad was a born a migrant. He likes to talk about the storm that was raging the night of his birth, but there was an even greater urgency than finding shelter from pounding rain that evening: hunger was pushing his family west. In an abandoned shack, having gone without …

Working with refugees through Omaha’s Benson Area Refugee Task Force, I get to be inspired every day. Our task force extends extra support to refugees being resettled to Omaha, Neb., many of them by Church World Service. Many of the refugees work more than 40 hours a week, have three or more children, and attend various classes. They say moving …

Around the United States communities are celebrating the 4th of July this weekend with fireworks, festivals and parades. Families are coming together for Independence Day cookouts. Except not everyone that gathers this holiday will have enough food to put on the (picnic) table. “In our country, in the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world, the reality …

As originally published on the Uniting NC website: http://www.unitingnc.org/2013/06/no-story-highlights-immigrants-generosity/#comment-1122 Last Saturday we continued our series of service events bringing together immigrants and non-immigrants to give back to their community. And again the response was wonderful. This time we had over 30 volunteers from 10 different countries all working together on a community farm that provides fresh produce to the Food …

When organizing CROP Hunger Walks, the phone is your friend.  CWS field staff spend a lot of time calling congregations, colleges, individuals or anyone else who will listen about growing CROP Hunger Walks. Nothing is better than getting a call from a person who wants to start a CROP Hunger Walk.  Seriously, you should see our faces when we hear …