APPEAL #700-B AMOUNT: $301,769 Situation: Heavy monsoon rains have been plaguing South East Asia since July and have severely affected one-third of Thailand’s land mass. A total of 3.4 million acres of farmland — a landmass 13 times the size of Hong Kong — is submerged under water. More than one-third of Thailand remains under water and more than 12.3 …
Water for All: Sustainable water projects need ownership
October 31, 2011
David Weaver, Church World Service senior advisor for Global Advocacy attended the Oct. 25-27 Global Forum of the Ecumenical Water Network of the World Council of Churches. EWN is a network of churches and Christian organizations “promoting people’s access to water around the world.” In this interview, from the WCC, Weaver discusses how the Mwingi Water for All Project is …
“Good! Good! We will do that!”
October 27, 2011
That was the immediate response of refugee teens in northwestern Rochester, N.Y., when Kathy LaBue suggested they organize a CROP Hunger Walk as a community service project. LaBue is co-founder of Mary’s Place, a community center for the many resettled refugees living in Rochester’s Maplewood and Edgerton neighborhoods. “I had walked in CROP Hunger Walks before, but the refugees hadn’t …
40 years strong: Quad-Cities CROP Hunger Walk
October 25, 2011
Hunger is a moving topic for folks in the Quad-Cities Area. The proof? Roughly 700 walkers from Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Ill., took to the streets on October 2 to help fight hunger in the nation’s only bi-state CROP Hunger Walk. This year marked the 40th year for the Quad Cities CROP Hunger Walk. Ann …
CWS emergency appeal: Cambodia flood response 2011
October 21, 2011
Situation: Cambodia is experiencing its worst seasonal flooding in more than a decade. Seventeen of the country’s 24 provinces have been affected – with 1,500,000 people affected nation-wide and more than 90,000 families displaced, according to authorities. The death toll stands at 207. About 13 percent of Cambodia’s rice crop is currently flooded, almost half of which is now destroyed, …
CWS 2020 Vision Adopted by CWS Board
ELGIN, Ill. – Combining “faith with a plan of action,” the board of directors of humanitarian agency Church World Service unanimously approved a strategic vision to meet the requirements for superior performance in a changing global environment. Calling the moment “historic,” CWS CEO and Executive Director, the Rev. John L. McCullough said the changes will “ripple out from here to …
Church World Service resettles 5,322 refugees in FY 2011 toward 56,424 U.S. refugee program total
October 14, 2011
Updated Monday, October 24, 2011 Delays resulting from the introduction of new U.S. Homeland Security checks in February contributed to a significant drop in U.S. refugee admissions in FY 2011 (Oct. 1, 2010 – Sept. 30, 2011), with Church World Service resettling 5,322 (down from 7,055 in FY 2010) toward a U.S. Refugee Admissions Program total of 56,424 (down from …
Focus on reducing disasters: “One way we are making a difference”
Chris Herlinger | October 13, 2011
Yogyakarta, Indonesia – The need to focus on reducing the risks of disasters takes on special meaning on the International Day for Disaster Reduction (October 13) and throughout October. Similarly, such a focus united some 40 participants in common purpose during a recent ACT Alliance global workshop on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The 5-9 September meeting, held …
America’s oldest hunger walk ups the pace as need grows
October 10, 2011
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – For the past 15 years, 67-year-old Marilyn Pisa has spent her Labor Day morning walking 4.5 miles through the neighborhoods of Valencia and Newhall, Calif., to support her local CROP Hunger Walk, one of some 1,500 events held annually nationwide and deemed the oldest hunger walks in America. CROP Hunger Walk, sponsored by global humanitarian agency …
Updated emergency appeal: Pakistan (Sindh) flooding
October 6, 2011
APPEAL # 699-Z AMOUNT: $1,723,229 Funding Received to Date: $90,000 Situation: Some 300 people have died from three months of flooding in Sindh, Pakistan, a disaster that has destroyed some 400,000 homes and has left a trial of serious diseases in its wake, with hundreds of thousands suffering from hepatitis and malaria. More than a half million people are living …