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 …
News & Updates | Posted Monday, February 4, 2013
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work as a CWS field staff person? You know, the people who help you organize your CROP Hunger Walks, you Blankets+ Sundays and your CWS Kits collections? Well, thanks to the new CWS Blog and yours truly, you will now have an inside look. The best part of working as CWS field …
News & Updates | Posted Thursday, January 31, 2013
Welcome to your blog. What joins us together is our relentlessness in the fight to end hunger and poverty. We are CWS and so are you! This is a public marketplace for actively sharing ideas, best practices, and informing each other of key areas where our activism is needed. Every one of us cares about the world well beyond our …
News & Updates | Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Freeport, New York – To outsiders, New York’s Long Island may evoke images of summer homes and beach living. But economic hard times have not been kind to working-class communities like Freeport. And the damage brought by Hurricane Sandy has only worsened — and deeply so — what have already been tough years. “For some of the most vulnerable on …