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 …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Paul Chan is a member of the CWS board of Directors. He led a trip for high school students to visit CWS programs in Vietnam this month. Below are some excerpts from the trip updates that he sent to the students’ parents. Tuesday, January 8 Today was a whirlwind tour. We started with a traditional pho breakfast. Soon thereafter, we …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, December 20, 2018
“The biggest obstacle to getting my rice to market is the distance,” Joanes Salgado says. It’s a two-hour walk from Joanes’ farm to the nearest road in this remote part of Nicaragua. Joanes grows rice, beans and plantains, which are the three staple crops for the indigenous Miskito and Mayangna people in the area. Joanes, a 49-year-old father of six, …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, November 8, 2018
What began as protests in Nicaragua in April turned into civil unrest and violence that has claimed more than 300 lives and led to widespread fear. Iván Aburto lives in the community of Santa Elena, about 20 miles south of the capital of Managua. “These past few months have been traumatic for us in the municipality of La Conquista,” Iván …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Across the globe, climate change-related displacement has become a norm rather than an exception. Weather and climate hazards that are becoming increasingly common are displacing millions of people. In Kenya’s far flung county of Tana River, 2018 will go down as another year of catastrophic weather. Mid this year, just when the area was recuperating from the 2017 devastating drought, …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, October 15, 2018
By Caleb Wafula You’ve probably seen the headlines about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a development agenda focused on ensuring that “no one is left behind.” Goal 4 of this agenda seeks to ensure inclusive and quality education for all, calling attention to the fact that 263 million children around the world are not attending school. Two Kenyan …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2018
While many students were traveling abroad or hanging out at the pool or beach this summer, a group of students was in the White Mountains of New Hampshire developing a closer relationship to God and supporting neighbors they will never meet through the work Church World Service does. Groups of 30 students from across New England gather at the Horton …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, August 30, 2018
Travel anywhere exciting this summer? Maybe California? Or New Jersey? …Ohio? How about Michigan? A handful of the CWS overseas team took a detour this summer to travel to each of those states. And for them – and those they had the opportunity to meet – it certainly was exciting! Here’s why: Columbus, Ohio keeps kids safe and warm in …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2018
It was about three weeks after flash flooding and landslides in the area that our team arrived in Lai Chau. I was part of the CWS Emergency Response team who was visiting this remote part of northern Vietnam to see how CWS could support the relief effort. Our team wasn’t new to emergency response – we have years of experience …