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Kenya: Displaced people return home in uncertaintyJune 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.[Full Story] |
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Emergency Clean-up Buckets -- a tangible way to help flood survivorsJune 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.[Full Story] |
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CWS assisting one million people in Myanmar, now shifting focus to farm recovery and food securityJune 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.[Full Story] |
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Providing refuge after the storm: Cyclone survivors in Myanmar receive temporary shelter and waterJune 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.[Full Story] |
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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.[Full Story] |
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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.[Full Story] |
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Chris Herlinger of Church World Service wins Egan AwardJune 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.[Full Story] |
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Boulder CROP Hunger Walk enters the record booksJune 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.[Full Story] |
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CWS training increases expertise of Asian NGOsMay 29, 2008 The CWS Pakistan-Afghanistan office reports the successful completion of a workshop in program development and proposal writing.[Full Story] |
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CWS responds to devastating spring stormsMay 27, 2008 Church World Service has increased its appeal responding to spring storms to $95,000.[Full Story] |
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Media Contacts:
Lesley Crosson, CWS/New York, 212-870-2676;
Jan Dragin (24/7), 781-925-1526;
Lesley Crosson, CWS/New York, 212-870-2676;
Jan Dragin (24/7), 781-925-1526;






