As stories of refugees and other displaced Persons in Pakistan hit the newspapers in May, Presbyterian World Service and Development's Guy Smagghe called the Pakistani branch of Church World Service and asked if there was some way the Presbyterian Church in Canada could help.
But Haitians in the remote Artibonite and Northwest regions are benefiting from a sustainable agriculture program supported by global humanitarian agency Church World Service and funded in part by a new grant from the US-based Osprey Foundation, reports Caribbean Net News (July 30, 2008): The program's expansion will provide more people, particularly women, with opportunities to grow enough food for their families and increase income for other basic needs through access to credit and training.
Most of the funds raised will go to Church World Services, an international relief group that coordinates CROP (Communities Reaching Out to People) walks across the country; 25 percent of the funds raised will stay in Santa Clarita, divided among four local charities: the Santa Clarita Homeless Shelter, St.
Rockford Bishop Thomas Doran was apparently reading against the walk's sponsor, Church World Service, which had invited former Planned Parenthood director Faye Wattleton to speak at one of its events.
BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2003 Progress-Based Solutions from Church World Service and DaimlerChrysler Services Fleet Management Honored for Their Innovative Use of Information Technology The Progress Company, an operating unit of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), and a leading supplier of technology for building the world's best business applications, today announced that two of its customers, Church World Service and DaimlerChrysler Services Fleet Management, were honored as finalists at the 2003 Computerworld Honors 21st Century Achievement Awards.
PWS&D, the national mission agency of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, supports two initiatives in Afghanistan: a food security project run through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and an education project for girls in partnership with Church World Service.
