CWS Emergency Response Program helps the faith community play its special role in disaster mitigation, preparedness, and response in the U.S. and around the world -- which is to:

• Stand on the side of the oppressed through advocacy with and for those most in need.
• Seek out unmet needs of all survivors -- particularly people who were vulnerable and marginalized before the disaster.
• Provide a larger vision of life that includes emotional and spiritual care as well as physical rebuilding.
• Assist in long-term recovery of those in need.
• Restore and build community relationships.

Latest Emergency Appeals

• Gaza/West Bank humanitarian response
• China earthquake
• West Timor food security crisis
• 2008 Spring U.S. storms
• Myanmar (Burma) cyclone Nargis response

Latest Emergency Updates

• As insecurity continues, a concern that the 'Darfur problem' is broader than Sudan
• CWS, Cedar Rapids churches focus on most vulnerable flood survivors
• CWS situation report: Zimbabwe humanitarian crisis
• Fact sheet on Myanmar recovery
• CWS assisting one million people in Myanmar, now shifting focus to farm recovery and food security

CWS response to Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma) A slideshow of CWS recovery efforts, with commentary by Stacey Winston/CWS, Bangkok, Thailand.

Updated slideshow of Cyclone recovery work (5/23) with commentary by CWS staff in Bangkok.

YouTube video: Making Emergency Cleanup Buckets in Willimantic, CT

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