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Church World Service, Cedar Rapids churches focus on most vulnerable flood survivors July 16, 2008 Faith-based organizations in Iowa's Cedar Valley expect large numbers of people to have an hard time recovering. Training for long-term recovery volunteers is offered July 17 and July 24. [Full Story]
As insecurity continues, a concern that the 'Darfur problem' is broader than Sudan July 15, 2008 Recent security concerns in eastern Chad have caused some organizations to evacuate staff, which included the temporary suspension of activities last month by the CWS-supported Lutheran World Federation-ACT International program. [Full Story]
CWS situation report: Zimbabwe humanitarian crisis July 10, 2008 Already high levels of politically motivated violence in the rural areas of Zimbabwe are increasing, the IRIN news service -- the service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs -- reported this week. [Full Story]
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. [Full Story]
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. [Full Story]
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. [Full Story]
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. [Full Story]
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]
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]
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. [Full Story]

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