APPEAL #: 642-O APPEAL GOAL: $200,000 Situation: Kenya is preparing for general elections that will be held by the end of March 2013. Kenya’s most recent general elections, in December 2007, sparked political violence that spiraled out of control, resulting in deadly conflicts between ethnic communities, killing more than 1,000 people and driving more than 500,000 people from their homes. …
CWS helps meet ongoing needs of Joplin tornado survivors
Church World Service, a global humanitarian organization, has awarded a grant of $5,000 to the Joplin Long-Term Recovery Committee to assist in meeting the needs of tornado survivors. The Joplin Long Term Recovery Committee is a collaborative group of more than 30 nonprofit and faith-based organizations working to help people affected by the May 22, 2011, tornado in Joplin, Mo. …
Refugees’ stories, talents to be featured at CWS World Refugee Day events
NEW YORK CITY – Chanda Timsina, a refugee from Bhutan, grew up in a refugee camp in Nepal. In 2009, she and her parents, brother and three sisters got the chance to resettle to the United States. Church World Service welcomed Chanda and her family to Lancaster, Pa. Chanda, her brother and three sisters are now all high school graduates. …
CWS welcomes ‘deferred action’ from deportation for 800,000-1,000,000 undocumented young people
New York, NY – Church World Service welcomed the Obama Administration’s announcement today of “deferred action” from the threat of deportation for an estimated 800,000 to one million DREAMers – undocumented immigrant young people who grew up in the United States and simply want to get an education, establish their lives and contribute to this country. “Too many DREAM students …
CWS focusing on hunger and malnutrition in D.C. and Brazil meetings
June 13, 2012
With hunger and malnutrition at the top of the world’s agenda, humanitarian agency Church World Service is participating in meetings in Brazil and in Washington, D.C. with an eye toward advocating on all available fronts for public policy that helps to reduce food and nutrition insecurity for the planet’s most vulnerable people. As world leaders meet in Brazil for talks …
CWS issues flood recovery appeal following pallid 2010-2011 international donations to worst disaster in Pakistani history
May 30, 2012
Islamabad, Pakistan — Although millions of people in flood-devastated southern Pakistan are still in dire need a year after massive flooding in 2010 and 2011, the humanitarian community and Pakistani government are working rigorously to help recover lives and livelihoods and to reconstruct the homes of survivors. But more support is urgently needed, as the country now enters what is …
CWS emergency appeal: Pakistan displacement 2012 (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province)
May 17, 2012
Appeal #: 700-D CWS appeal goal: $854,638 Situation: Due to increasing military operations against militants in tribal regions and other parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (northern Pakistan), residents have begun evacuating to safer regions. The city of Peshawar and its surrounding areas as well as Jalozai camp in Nowshera are the primary destinations for these displaced people. Jalozai camp has …
Sheila McGeehan: resettling refugees in Lancaster, Pa., for 25 years
May 14, 2012
Not many people can claim to have resettled thousands upon thousands of refugees to their hometown – but Sheila McGeehan can. Since she began her work with the Church World Service Immigration and Refugee Program (CWS/IRP) 25 years ago, she has introduced refugees from all around the world to Lancaster, Pa. – the “tranquil, prosperous, safe, pretty” city she loves. …
CWS emergency appeal: Sahel (Africa) food crisis
May 9, 2012
Appeal #: 642-N Appeal goal: $100,000 Situation: Unusually low rainfall has devastated food crops across the Sahel, a vast African region south of the Sahara desert. An estimated 15.5 million people are now affected by food insecurity in Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, the Gambia, Mauritania and Senegal. As conditions continue to deteriorate, more than 1 million children under the …
Church World Service CEO John McCullough receives United Methodist Church Council of Bishops ecumenical award
May 2, 2012
Editors: Downloadable high-res photo of Rev. McCullough. TAMPA, Fla. – The Rev. John L. McCullough, executive director and chief executive officer of humanitarian agency Church World Service, was honored Tuesday evening (May 1) by his denomination the United Methodist Church for outstanding global ecumenical leadership. A tribute bestowed every four years, McCullough received the Council of Bishops Ecumenical Award for …