News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, October 7, 2020
In 2016, Hurricane Matthew devastated the Grand Anse department of Haiti. Its powerful winds destroyed homes and buildings and wiped out crops and livelihoods. As families lost both their source of income and assets in the hurricane, they had limited means to recover from the devastation. The damage was done in a matter of hours. Recovery would take years. After …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2020
“On May 31st, 1970, on a lazy foggy Sunday afternoon, I was at home reading when the earth began to shake. I ran into the street. Outside you could see the shock waves rolling under the asphalt (….) Soon, the shaking stopped, but life would never again be the same.” – Ricardo Frohmader, CWS Peru director 1969-1971. This year on …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Centro de Informacion serves the Spanish-speaking residents of Elgin, IL and surrounding communities. Originally founded in 1972 to help the area’s small Spanish-speaking population, they have expanded over the decades as the number of Spanish speakers in the area has also grown. Many of the organization’s clients are immigrants. “For the last 48 years, Centro has served as the place …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Timor island’s Soe District is one of the poorest in all of Indonesia. For some years now, CWS (and CROP Hunger Walkers!) have been working with some of the most vulnerable communities there through our Timor Zero Hunger program. Families needed some help to work themselves out of extreme poverty, and we were there for them. Recently, because of our …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, April 20, 2020
Allen Ottaro is the Executive Director of Catholic Youth Network for Environment Sustainability for Africa. This interview was conducted in November 2019. CWS: Could you say a little bit about how your faith motivates you to be involved in climate advocacy? AO: I work as founder and Executive Director of the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa, which …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, March 3, 2020
It was the end of October, and spring had just started in Argentina. In the Gran Chaco region, though, it felt like the middle of summer as the temperature easily reached 110° F. We were in Orán, a town in the province of Salta in the Gran Chaco. Thirty women got together to exchange experiences and learn new technologies for …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Appeal code: 642X Appeal amount: $500,000 This is an update about our flood response. Click here to read the original appeal. DONATE HERE. CWS is responding to massive, deadly flooding in two parts of Kenya: West Pokot County and the Tana River delta. In both areas, we have responded with a month of emergency food rations for families who were …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Nebaj is a municipality in Guatemala’s Quiché department that is home to many indigenous Ixil people, a Maya indigenous group. The CWS-supported “Seeds of Hope” program focuses on the communities of Pexlá Grande, Pulay, Turanza and Visaj Cup in Nebaj. Like many rural communities in Guatemala, Nebaj was affected by the bloody internal armed conflict of the Guatemalan Civil War, …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, August 22, 2019
On the first day of school each year, lots of parents post photos of their children wearing new clothes, sporting a new backpack and smiling for the camera. For some families living in poverty, though, buying school supplies for the first day of school can be a challenge. Franklinton is an urban neighborhood west of downtown Columbus, Ohio. According to …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, February 8, 2019
Lebucaileti is a small community high in the mountains of Timor-Leste, where living conditions are extremely hard. Most of the time, there is limited water, and during the dry season from July to December, there is almost none. This makes farming – which is most families’ main livelihood and household food source – extremely difficult. During these months, families must …