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Kenya: Displaced people return home in uncertainty

June 24, 2008 After five months of languishing in the hundreds of overcrowded, understaffed, and undersupplied camps, most of Kenya's Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are finally returning home.
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Internally Displaced Persons

Emergency Clean-up Buckets -- a tangible way to help flood survivors

June 24, 2008 Church World Service is urging congregations, groups and individuals across the U.S. to help flooded out Midwest families by assembling Emergency Clean-up Buckets.
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An Emergency Clean-up Bucket

CWS assisting one million people in Myanmar, now shifting focus to farm recovery and food security

June 23, 2008 Global humanitarian agency Church World Service (CWS) reports that as of today, it has provided temporary shelter and fresh water supplies sufficient for nearly one million Myanmar (Burma) cyclone survivors.
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Providing refuge after the storm: Cyclone survivors in Myanmar receive temporary shelter and water

June 12, 2008 Sisters watched in horror as their house collapsed and drifted down the Irrawaddy Delta, and rising water forced them to float amid the debris that was once their home.
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Woman mourning loss of her sister

CWS appeal: 2008 Spring U.S. storms (updated)

June 12, 2008 The first half of 2008 has seen the most severe tornado outbreak in 23 years, flooding from Texas to Maine and renewed flooding in areas that had barely dried out.
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A survivor surveys damage from the tornado that struck Racine, Mo

CWS appeal: China earthquake (updated)

June 12, 2008 The 2008 eartquake in southwest China has killed nearly 12,000 and affected more than 20 provinces.
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A man and a child sit in the rain amidst the rubble

Chris Herlinger of Church World Service wins Egan Award

June 11, 2008 Church World Service's Chris Herlinger has won an Egan Award for Journalistic Excellence from Catholic Relief Services for photography on assignment in the troubled region of Darfur, Sudan.
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Boulder CROP Hunger Walk enters the record books

June 4, 2008 When hunger fighting advocates in Boulder, Colo. stepped off for the community's annual CROP Hunger Walk last October, they had no idea they were walking into the record books.
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CROP Hunger Walk Coordinator Suzanne Dysard

CWS training increases expertise of Asian NGOs

May 29, 2008 The CWS Pakistan-Afghanistan office reports the successful completion of a workshop in program development and proposal writing.
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CWS responds to devastating spring storms

May 27, 2008 Church World Service has increased its appeal responding to spring storms to $95,000.
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Media Contacts:
Lesley Crosson, CWS/New York, 212-870-2676;
Jan Dragin (24/7), 781-925-1526;

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