Appeal #6823 Appeal amount: $292,360 SITUATION: Ongoing conflict has forced more than 4.6 million Iraqis from their homes, with some 1 million having been displaced prior to the 2003 U.S.invasion,...
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Emergency appeal update: Assistance to war affected Iraqis
Ongoing conflict has forced more than 4.6 million Iraqis from their homes, with some 1 million having been displaced prior to the 2003 U.S. invasion, and another 3.6 million displaced, both inside...
Afghanistan + 1 more
CWS Afghanistan refugee health project saves lives, teaches health care
Hi-res photos to accompany this story are available at: www.churchworldservice.org/media/hires.html NEW YORK CITY -- As time runs out for three million Afghan refugees to stay legally in Pakistan,...
Afghanistan + 1 more
Health care program for Afghan women is halving maternal, neonatal death rates
NEW YORK -- Conflict-torn Afghanistan has one of the world's worst health records, but in certain provinces, infant and maternal mortality rates have dropped by more than half during the course of a...
Myanmar + 1 more
CWS appeal: Burma (Myanmar) humanitarian assistance
Appeal Number: 6994 Appeal Amount: $100,000 SITUATION: The continuing humanitarian crisis in Burma (Myanmar) has, over several decades, provoked a range of increasingly serious life-threatening...
Dominican Rep. + 3 more
CWS emergency appeal: 2007 Caribbean Storms
Appeal Number: 6759 Appeal Amount: $20,000 SITUATION: Noel -- which has moved across the Caribbean as a slow-moving tropical storm but has now grown to a Category-1 hurricane -- has reportedly left...
CWS emergency appeal: Sep 2007 Sumatra (Indonesia) earthquake
Appeal #6992 Appeal amount: US$125,000 SITUATION: The 8.4-magnitude earthquake that struck off the Indonesian coast September 12 killed 25 people, injured 100 and damaged an estimated 88,000 homes...
Nicaragua + 3 more
Guatemala/Honduras/Nicaragua/Indonesia: Hotline 10 Sep 2007
(Extract) Central America and the Caribbean Clean-up and recovery begin as Hurricane Felix dissipates over Central America. More than 100 people have died in Nicaragua and Honduras. Providing relief...
Honduras + 2 more
CWS emergency appeal - Central America Hurricane Felix response
Appeal #6758 Appeal amount: US$85,000 (INITIAL) SITUATION: As Hurricane Felix dissipates over Central America, government and aid agencies are beginning to cope with its effects. At least 38 people...
Kenya: CWS emergency appeal - Mount Elgon
Appeal #641-U Appeal Goal: $20,000 SITUATION: The Mt. Elgon district of Kenya -- an administrative district in the western part of Kenya, located on the south-eastern slopes of Mt. Elgon -- is the...
CWS emergency appeal: North Kordofan (Sudan) floods
Appeal #641-T Appeal Goal: $25,000 SITUATION: A month of torrential rains in many parts of Sudan have resulted in floods that have severely affected homes, infrastructure, social service facilities,...
CWS emergency appeal: China floods
Appeal #6535 Appeal Goal: $80,000 SITUATION: Tens of millions of people across southwestern, central and eastern China are grappling with the aftermath of recent floods that, since June, have killed...
CWS emergency appeal: Assistance to war-affected Iraqis
Appeal #6823 Appeal Goal: $292,360 SITUATION: The escalating sectarian conflict in Iraq has created a crisis marked by lawlessness and extreme humanitarian distress. Large parts of the population...
Pakistan + 1 more
Pakistan/Indonesia: Hotline 30 Jul 2007
Flood survivors struggle to recover in Pakistan Hafeeza Bibi, 70, lived with her nephew before flooding caused their mud house in Balochistan Province to collapse. All of her belongings were ruined...
Pakistan: Interim assessment report II of the effects of the cyclone Yemyin in Kech District Balochistan Province
AREA ASSESSED: Province: Balochistan, District: Turbat Background Following media, NGO and other reports reaching the CWS-P/A on the dire effects of the Cyclone Yemyin in the Balochistan province of...
CWS emergency appeal: Pakistan 2007 flood response
Appeal #6989 Appeal Amount: $5.3 million SITUATION: Since late June, southern Pakistan has been hit by several cycles of poor weather, including rains affecting the coastal regions of Sindh and...
India + 3 more
Pakistan and India/Gaza and Westbank/Indonesia: Hotline 16 Jul 2007
Pakistan and India Like many tenant farmers in flood-affected parts of Pakistan, Nawaz and his family have lost their roof, their entire crop, and their goats. Even before the recent storms and...
CWS emergency appeal: OPT - Gaza and West Bank crisis
Appeal #6822 Appeal Goal: $100,000 SITUATION: The Gaza Strip has undergone dramatic developments over the last few weeks during intensive factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah, leaving at least...
Chad + 2 more
Pakistan/Chad/Sudan: Hotline 09 Jul 2007
Over 1.5 million people affected by floods in southern Pakistan Pakistan A cyclone, excessive rainfall, and flooding in the Punjab, Balochistan, Sindh, and North-West Frontier provinces of Pakistan...
CWS emergency appeal: Mozambique arsenal explosions
Appeal Number 641-Q Appeal Amount: $20,000 SITUATION: A massive March 22 fire and subsequent series of explosions erupted at the Malhazine Paiol (armory) located near Maputo International Airport in...