News & Updates | Posted Sunday, February 2, 2014
In my twelve years on staff with CWS I have had the opportunity to really get to know and understand this organization. I have had the pleasure of personally visiting CWS partners and projects in Nicaragua, Haiti, Dominican Republic and most recently in Kenya and Tanzania. These partners and projects vary widely in their location, language, culture and focus, but …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, January 24, 2014
Ever volunteer for something at work, immediately regret that you did, but eventually go full circle and psych yourself about it? And then fall in love with said project and forget what life was like beforehand? And then maybe, and this is just between us, become a tad territorial about that project in the process? That would be my story …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, January 10, 2014
“We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.” Thich Nhat Hanh My colleague Angela, who coordinates this blog, asked me to reflect on my 30+ years with CWS in light of my January 2014 retirement. While that sounds like a long time, it doesn’t feel that way – until Angela reminds me that she wasn’t born when …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, December 6, 2013
Just getting to the CWS Therapeutic Feeding Center in West Timor is a challenge for many. When I visited our programs in Indonesia a couple of weeks ago with a group of CWS supporters (including CWS board member, Patricia de Jong) from the U.S., it took around 20 hours of air travel, followed by several bumpy car rides across the …
News & Updates | Posted Saturday, November 2, 2013
“Thank you for sharing your feet. God bless you.” With those words, Mary Catherine Hinds, CWS’s Senior Field Director for the Southeast United States, bid good luck to the hundreds of Raleigh, NC, residents who were about to begin the three-mile trek of this year’s Raleigh CROP Hunger Walk. I’m no stranger to CROP Hunger Walks. I first learned of …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, October 25, 2013
As originally published by Sojourners, 10/18/2013, 4:32 p.m. http://sojo.net/blogs/2013/10/18/numbness-action-ending-world-hunger My child ate today. Breakfast was pancakes and sausage. Walking to school I said, “If you don’t like the leftover hamburger that I put in your lunchbox, just buy something from the cafeteria. You have plenty of money in your account.” Tonight we will have tacos, but if I am too …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, October 9, 2013
A free hands-on workshop on effective disaster case management will be offered October 21 in Vineland, 22 in Egg Harbor Township, 24 in Ocean and 25 in Hillside, N.J. The workshop is for disaster case managers, case management supervisors, construction managers, and leaders and subcommittee leaders of long-term recovery groups working to help individuals and families recover following Superstorm Sandy. …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, September 24, 2013
As originally published by National Catholic Reporter, 09/21/2013. http://ncronline.org/news/people/church-world-service-humanitarian-fought-hunger-poverty-home-and-abroad I am filled with respect and admiration for the women of my mother’s generation: those born before or during World War II who are now in their 70s. They were (and are) a “transition generation” that, in the 1960s and 1970s, witnessed and experienced great change and upheavals, living lives many …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Day-long workshops on long-term recovery from disaster will be held October 1 in Chicago, October 2 in Lisle and October 4 in Peoria, Ill. The focus will be on meeting unmet needs of survivors of storms and flooding in April and May whose impact was so severe that 49 Illinois counties received federal disaster declarations. The CWS “Recovery Tools and …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, September 16, 2013
As originally posted by Moms Encouraging Moms, 09/23/2013. http://www.momsencouragingmoms.com/just-a-cup-of-milk/ It is such a mundane thing. And really, it can sometimes border on annoying, as I’m totally on to his stall tactics. I mean, a cup of milk about 10 minutes after bed? Come on. Just a widdle biddle milk, Mom? Please? Add a pair of blinking, beautiful eyes and an …