In war-torn Chad, a focus on 'mind, soul and body'

KOUKOU ANGARANA, CHAD Zeinaba Adam, the mother of five children and a resident of the Aradib displacement camp in eastern Chad, is no stranger to guilt.

In the midst of a raid on her village in eastern Chad in March 2007, by those she describes as the Janjaweed, she was shot five times and survived - believing a headscarf she wore acted as a kind of talisman of protection. But it did not offer her full defense from the terrors of violence and trauma. Adam asked her husband, Hassein Bourma, to retrieve a mattress for her. In his return to the couple's besieged village, Bourma was killed. Adam, 26, still feels responsible for her husband's death. Read more »

CWS promotes funding to help poor nations adapt to climate change

In preparation for the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, scheduled for Nov.29 - Dec. 2 in Doha, Qatar, Church World Service is working with partners to mobilize public advocacy in support of proposals calling for timely and sufficient foreign assistance to help developing nations adapt to the consequences of climate change.

Climate change affects millions of people worldwide—especially the poor.

CWS Director of Education and Advocacy Rajyashri Waghray, who has led the agency's work on financing for development since the year 2000 meetings around the issue in Monterrey, Mexico, points out that many vulnerable economies will be "hardest hit" by the adverse effects of climate change.   Read more »

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