CWS Kits: ‘This is a sacred task’

News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, February 9, 2011

As full-time residents on an island in Alaska, I think the people of Sitka are hearty survivalists.  They understand being prepared in an emergency.  Perhaps that’s why this community identified so closely with the concept of a CWS Kit.  A note about the kits they recently shipped to our warehouse in Arkansas explains: Ours is a small congregation on an …

An oasis of caring and practical assistance

News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2011

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’

News & Updates | Posted Monday, 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 …