June 16, 2023 Washington, D.C.—Church World Service celebrates World Refugee Day by honoring the strength and courage of all those around the world forced to flee their homes. The organization also...
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World + 6 more
June 16, 2023 Washington, D.C.—Church World Service celebrates World Refugee Day by honoring the strength and courage of all those around the world forced to flee their homes. The organization also...
Tanzania + 2 more
The CWS Urban Refugee Self-Reliance Program has supported 35 refugees and vulnerable host community members in Tanzania and 800 in South Africa as they become more economically self-reliant. “I...
Rwanda + 4 more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In November 2014, CWS initiated a pilot project to increase self-reliance among urban refugees in Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania, through intensive case management and outreach...
Angola + 2 more
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ANGOLA RETURNEES CWS EMERGENCY APPEAL #: 642-P Appeal Amount: $39,350 (For long-term work) Aug. 1, 2012 SITUATION REPORT: Due to...
Angola + 1 more
Floods near the Angolan border with the Democratic Republic of Congo are causing severe problems to residents and to recent Angolan returnees who have recently returned to their country from the DRC. ...
CAR + 3 more
By Kendra Rinas and Carol Fouke-Mpoyo After several years of persistent efforts to overcome numerous delays due to fragile security and often-hostile weather, the first 75 refugees including 45 from...
DR Congo + 1 more
(extract) Democratic Republic of Congo Bageni Katembereza and her six children were forced to suddenly flee their home in September when the recent fighting hit their village in eastern Congo. They...
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(extract) Democratic Republic of Congo Clashes between armed groups are being reported daily in Masisi and Rutshuru territories, North Kivu Province. The decade-long conflict in the country has left...
Escalating violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has displaced more than 1 million people in the last two years, and left 5 million dead since fighting intensified 1998. War-related conflict...
Burundi + 7 more
In more than 50 countries around the world children are being kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers. Child soldiers are children younger then eighteen who are directly or indirectly used as...
DR Congo + 7 more
Appeal #641-R Appeal amount: $100,000 SITUATION: Even though the Democratic Republic of Congo has held its first open elections in 40 years, violence by militias and foreign troops near DRC's borders...
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The following represent some of the many ways Church World Service is creating a rainbow of help and hope -- a beautiful Rainbow of Caring -- through the TOOLS & BLANKETS Program. This shipping...
Long-time military conflicts between rival militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - fuelled by tensions between the Hema and Lendu peoples -- are causing serious insecurity problems in...
CWS is partnering with Interchurch Medical Assistance to implement a health program for survivors -- some 450,000 people -- of the January 2002 Goma volcano eruption. Improving access and restoring...
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM EMERGENCY ACCOUNT # 6442 CWS goal: $50,000 March 8, 2002 SITUATION: Despite a peace agreement signed in July 1999, the war in the Democratic Republic...
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM UPDATED AND EXPANDED EMERGENCY APPEAL: Congo Volcano #6439 for $718,557 March 4, 2002 (Expanded appeal; was initially issued Jan. 21 for $200,000; now...
Josephina Bampende lifts the lid of her cooking pot. She is cooking a meal consisting of beans -- the only food she has -- on a small fire outside the Birere Baptist church in Goma. This is where the...
Situation Report: The situation in and around Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, remains chaotic in the wake of the devastation caused by the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo. Volcanic lava has...
As families in and around Goma attempt to recover from the mid-January eruption of the Mt. Nyiragongo volcano, CWS is focusing its efforts on medical needs. CWS's local medical partner organization,...
Riziki Sherina and her family fled their home in Goma, not even stopping to take anything with them, when they saw the lava stream from Mount Nyiragongo coming toward their house. The family has...