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 …
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, …
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 …