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Hi-res photos for media use

The images below are available in hi-res format for media organizations to use in conjunction with CWS news releases and stories. Please include the full photo credit when using these photos. If you have any questions regarding use of these images, please contact .

Kenya: Displaced people return home in uncertainty -- More hi-res photos
Charles Masese and his wife

Date: 06/24/08

Caption: KENYA--Charles Masese and his wife, whose family was displaced by post-election violence, have recently pitched their CWS tent by the ruins of their home. More hi-res photos

Credit: Micah McCoy/CWS

Boulder CROP Hunger Walk enters the record books
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Date: 05/12/08

Caption: Church World Service Executive Director Rev. John L. McCullough (left foreground) and Boulder CROP Hunger Walk Coordinator Suzanne Dysard (with sign) visit with students and teachers at one of the many schools in Vietnam where CWS helps to provide water and sanitation facilities.

Credit: John Paterakis

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China earthquake response photos
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Date: 05/12/08

Caption: Following the May 12 earthquake in south central China, the Amity Foundation, a long-time Church World Service partner, began immediately to provide emergency supplies of drinking water, as well as food, to families displaced by the disaster.

Credit: Amity

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Date: 05/12/08

Caption: The Amity Foundation, a long-time Church World Service partner, is providing temporary shelter for many families affected by the May 12 earthquake that hit south central China. 

Credit: Amity

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Date: 05/12/08

Caption: The Amity Foundation, a long-time Church World Service partner, is providing plastic tarps for temporary shelter to 8,000 of the most vulnerable families displaced from their homes by the May 12 earthquake in south central China. 

Credit: Amity

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Myanmar cyclone response photos

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Date: 05/10/08

Caption: Local aid workers coordinating requests for aid with survivors just outside Rangon, Myanmar.

Credit: CWS-ACT

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Date: 05/10/08

Caption: Cyclone survivors in Myanmar receiving rice from local organizations at an aid distribution center at the edge of Yangon.

Credit: CWS-ACT

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Date: 05/10/08

Caption: Myanmar--Temporary shelters being constructed with bamboo and plastic sheeting for roofing, funded by Church World Service and ACT.

Credit: CWS-ACT

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Date: 05/10/08

Caption: Residents and CWS partner aid workers prepare plastic sheeting for use in temporary shelter construction in Myanmar.

Credit: CWS-ACT

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Date: 05/10/08

Caption: Myanmar--Temporary shelters being constructed with bamboo and funded plastic sheeting for roofing, funded by Church World Service and ACT.

Credit: CWS-ACT

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Date: 05/10/08

Caption: Myanmar--Temporary shelters being constructed with bamboo and funded plastic sheeting for roofing, funded by Church World Service and ACT.

Credit: CWS-ACT

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Date: 05/13/08

Caption: Myanmar--Local CWS partners helping people access water.

Credit: CWS-ACT

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Date: 05/13/08

Caption: Myanmar--Getting water from wells with foot pumps.

Credit: CWS-ACT

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Date: 05/13/08

Caption: Myanmar--Training in the proper use of water purification supplies to ensure clean water, at an local aid organization's office.

Credit: CWS-ACT

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Date: 05/13/08

Caption: Myanmar--A collapsible water basket for temporary water storage.

Credit: CWS-ACT

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Best Gifts Catalog photos

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Date: 10/15/07

Caption: BEST GIFT A Cambodian boy washes his family's water buffalo. These four-legged tractors provide a farm family with the power to significantly increase their food production, as well as a strong back to carry produce to market.

Credit: Nic Dunlop/CWS

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Date: 10/15/07

Caption: BEST GIFT With a sewing machine and a little training, women can develop a new skill and establish a reliable means to support themselves and their families, as this young Angolan woman is doing.

Credit: Tammi Mott/CWS

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Date:10/15/07

Caption: BEST GIFT Education being a major key to a better tomorrow, Haitian students learn about their national flag and a school lunch program in a school supported by CWS's partners.

Credit: Don Tatlock/CWS

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Date: 10/15/07

Caption: BEST GIFT CWS provided hundreds of Hygiene Kits to students in the Pascagoula, Mississippi, School District in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. CWS Hygiene Kits contain items essential to personal care - washcloth, hand towel, comb, nail file, toothbrush, toothpaste, and Band-Aids - meeting a critical need after disaster strikes.

Credit: Christy Pritchett

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Date: 10/15/07

Caption: BEST GIFT Two young girls gather water at Camp Maira in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, an area hard hit by the winter 2005 earthquake. CWS assisted the displaced families with water and sanitation training.

Credit: Chris Herlinger/CWS

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Date: 10/15/07

Caption: BEST GIFT A young Angolan, who was displaced by the country's civil war, is happy to be resettling back home. For struggling farmers, hoes and shovels are lifelines of hope in tilling the soil, planting seeds, and clearing weeds.

Credit: Paul Jeffrey/ACT-CWS

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Date: 10/15/07

Caption: BEST GIFT A girl and her brother, survivors of the 2005 earthquake that ravaged northwest Pakistan, stand outside their family's tent - shelter from the storm provided by CWS and our fellow members of the ACT coalition.

Credit: Paul Jeffrey/ACT-CWS

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