A recently resettled refugee family from Darfur, Sudan, braved a cold, pouring rain to participate in last fall’s CROP Hunger Walk in Erie, Pa. The Tiras raised nearly $200 for CWS work to fight hunger in Erie and around the world. “Katie White is the Community Outreach Director of the International Institute of Erie (IIE), which resettled the Tira family …
An oasis of caring and practical assistance
Carol Fouke/CWS |
The shockwaves from the earthquake that ravaged Haiti also swept across the Haitian-American community. It was not unusual to have lost five, 10, even 20 family members in the rubble. Everyone heard story after heart-wrenching story of death, injury, and loss of home and livelihood. Survivors’ pleas for help from their U.S.-based kin multiplied. A year later, the Haitian-American community …
A year later in Haiti ‘we see people trying to move on with their lives’
Chris Herlinger | January 10, 2011
Port-au-Prince, Haiti — Media coverage of the first year since the devastating January 12, 2010, earthquake is focused on government inaction, the slow pace of recovery and the seeming inability of Haiti to recover. But the story has another side: Haitians helping Haitians, say Church World Service staff and CWS partners in anticipation of this week’s anniversary. “One year after …
CWS’s McCullough hails U.S. shift to local farmers and nutrition as solution to global hunger
January 5, 2011
Feed the Future consult calls on experience of faith-based agencies UN-FAO: “We need to hear from you because you are in touch with even the smallest of the grassroots organizations.” Washington, D.C. — John L. McCullough, executive director and CEO of humanitarian agency Church World Service, today hailed the new United States commitment to a long-term focus on smallholder farmers, …
Stories: Excerpts from an RSC/Nairobi caseworker’s journal
October 1, 2010
A caseworker with the Nairobi-based CWS Resettlement Support Center, Rosalie Hughes helps compile the case files of refugees being considered for U.S. resettlement and get the files ready for presentation to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for refugees’ final interview. And she keeps a journal. Here are some excerpts. Dadaab, Kenya – Stories begin I observed my first interviews today …