News & Updates | Posted Friday, February 15, 2013
Sometimes it takes an outsider to help you say what you want to say. For years, those of us involved in our emergency response work have struggled with “the message” of what we do in the United States. It’s been a struggle because it isn’t sexy work; it’s long and drawn out, and the fruit it bears can take years. …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, February 4, 2013
Appeal # 627-V update CWS appeal goal: $100,000 (unchanged) Funds received: $32,000 Funds received: $37,000 (estimated) Situation: Hurricane Isaac was a slow moving storm that took eight lives and caused an estimated $2 billion in damage in September 2012. It affected Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama in September 2012, Mississippi and Louisiana were again affected in December by severe storms …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, February 4, 2013
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work as a CWS field staff person? You know, the people who help you organize your CROP Hunger Walks, you Blankets+ Sundays and your CWS Kits collections? Well, thanks to the new CWS Blog and yours truly, you will now have an inside look. The best part of working as CWS field …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, February 1, 2013
Situation Severe storms and numerous tornadoes January 29-30 affected numerous states ranging from Texas to Pennsylvania and from Kansas to Florida. Power outages, estimated at 120,000 in the affected areas, numerous road blockages and building damage from fallen trees occurred in numerous states. Localized flooding has also been reported in several states. More than 20 tornadoes were confirmed in the states of …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, January 31, 2013
Welcome to your blog. What joins us together is our relentlessness in the fight to end hunger and poverty. We are CWS and so are you! This is a public marketplace for actively sharing ideas, best practices, and informing each other of key areas where our activism is needed. Every one of us cares about the world well beyond our …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Toms River, NJ – At the core of every CWS recovery training is a simple truism, spoken recently by one training participant here in central New Jersey, a region still trying to gain its footing after Hurricane Sandy. “A training like this helps people (disaster survivors) by empowering the people who can help them,” said Diane Riley, director of advocacy …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, January 14, 2013
Situation: Floods in the past two weeks following a long drought have left more than 20 people dead, houses destroyed and large stretches of agricultural land devastated due to flooding and resulting landslides. (The parched land cannot absorb the sudden water.) Hundreds of families have been displaced in the floods, which have occurred during post-New Year festival time. The capital …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, December 28, 2012
Situation: Recent cross-border violence in Palestinian-controlled Gaza and Israel has worsened the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where, following an Israel military offensive in early November, 163 Palestinians perished – 42 of them children and 22 of them women. The psychosocial and health conditions, especially those of children living in Gaza, is a major concern which needs to be addressed. CWS …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Situation: Recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy continue in Haiti and Cuba, two countries severely hit by the late October hurricane. Dozens were killed in the Caribbean by the storm, which crippled a number of affected areas. In Cuba, for example, more than 188,000 homes were damaged and the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba was particularly devastated. In Haiti, Sandy …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Freeport, New York – To outsiders, New York’s Long Island may evoke images of summer homes and beach living. But economic hard times have not been kind to working-class communities like Freeport. And the damage brought by Hurricane Sandy has only worsened — and deeply so — what have already been tough years. “For some of the most vulnerable on …