News & Updates | Posted Saturday, June 29, 2013
When organizing CROP Hunger Walks, the phone is your friend. CWS field staff spend a lot of time calling congregations, colleges, individuals or anyone else who will listen about growing CROP Hunger Walks. Nothing is better than getting a call from a person who wants to start a CROP Hunger Walk. Seriously, you should see our faces when we hear …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, June 17, 2013
New York, N.Y./Galavani, Republic of Georgia – Development and relief agency CWS welcomes the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s announcement on Wednesday that 38 countries, including several where CWS supports local hunger and malnutrition programs, have met the internationally established Millennium Development Goals to cut hunger in half by 2015. The FAO also congratulated 18 of those countries for …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, May 24, 2013
For CWS Great Plains Assistant Regional Director Rebekah Belase, this past week’s devastating tornados struck very close to home. Belase commutes to her office in Topeka, Kansas, from her home in Stillwater, Okla. Stillwater is about a 90-minute drive from Moore. It feels even closer – “I have quite a few friends from college who live in Moore and Norman,” …
News & Updates | Posted Saturday, May 11, 2013
My mom was a member of the Altar Guild at St. Michael Catholic Church in Gastonia, NC. As a young girl I would join her on Saturday mornings to help clean the sanctuary. My job was to scrape out the residual wax from the bottom of the candle holders and place a new candle into the glass. Surrounded by the …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2013
As the 2,500th CWS Emergency Cleanup Bucket arrives today in flood-ravaged Illinois, Church World Service is appealing urgently for people to replenish its rapidly dwindling supply. Heavy precipitation from early 2013 storms and floods has resulted in widespread and severe flooding in Illinois and other states. “The CWS Emergency Cleanup Buckets are giving hope and help to survivors,” said Barry …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, April 22, 2013
As my first year at CWS comes to a close I look back at all that my CROP Hunger Walk volunteers have accomplished. What a difference they have made in the fight against hunger. Together they have advocated for the 925 million people who do not have enough to eat. They have educated others on what it means to live …
News & Updates | Posted Friday, March 22, 2013
Starting a CROP Hunger Walk at the University of Connecticut has been both a thrilling and frightening experience. I wanted to get involved because I truly believe in the cause; that there is enough food for all in this world. There is nothing better a person can do than to help those in need and I am fortunate to have …
News & Updates | Posted Saturday, March 9, 2013
CWS field staffers get to work in a variety of settings. We work in big cities and small towns, urban areas and rural areas. No matter the setting, the people we meet care about the world outside of their communities. New Bremen, OH is home to 2,970 people according to the 2011 U.S. Census. Known as a historic location for …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, February 28, 2013
“One of the most devastating effects of poverty is hunger, and we cannot End Hunger Now if we’re not talking about it. This is a big problem. This is a problem that is not going away unless we act,” says Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) in a series of speeches he’s making on hunger in America on the floor of the …
News & Updates | Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2013
It had been a long morning in the Dominican Republic, visiting a local community called Antonci. We had just spent hours in the crop fields under the Caribbean sun, learning all of the wonderful ways in which CWS and our local partners have helped transform this community and the families who live here. We were just about to leave when …