Church World Service
Church World Service has provided a global ecumenical approach to feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick, comforting the aged, and sheltering the homeless for over 75 years. They seek to minister not only to immediate short-term needs, but also to systemic issues by seeking to break the cycles that perpetrate those issues.
Emergency Rations for Child: A series of natural disasters in Kenya’s West Pokot region has resulted in massive food shortages due to the loss of farms, livestock, and homes. Many families are struggling with where to find food for their children.
Gift Option: $9 will ensure that a child receives a month’s worth of emergency food rations.
Corn Seed: Farming is a difficult business as the farmer’s survival often rests on natural phenomena beyond their control. One weather event can destroy the most promising of crops. Haiti is particularly susceptible to hurricanes aside from the many other issues facing that troubled country.
Gift Option: $10 will purchase 3 cans of corn seed to enable a farmer to recover from a lost harvest or expand their livelihoods with additional crops.
Chickens: Protein is an important part of a child’s development, but families in rural Tanzania don’t always have access to it. That’s where chickens come in. Chickens provide a constant supply of eggs (protein), and those eggs can also be sold to pay for healthy vegetables.
Gift Option: $17 will give the gift of four chickens to promote a well-balanced diet.
School Supplies: Haitian school children desperately need normal. Hurricanes, earthquakes, rampant violence, political upheaval, and rampant poverty have resulted in school closures and left children’s future teetering.
Gift Option: $16 equips 12 students with pens, pencils, and notebooks so they can study both inside and outside of the classroom and work for a more calm and certain future.
Books: Books allow us to explore times, cultures, and worlds that for various reasons are closed to us. Literacy is particularly crucial to a child’s development and future success. Children in rural and impoverished schools are often left at a disadvantage when it comes to being provided sufficient reading material.
Gift Option: $7 will provide 3 students in Vietnam books to allow them to explore new ideas and amazing places.
Fish: Teaching someone how to fish is of little benefit is the person is unable to access fish. Accordingly, supplying someone access to 250 or 500 fish changes everything. The ability to catch healthy fish not only improves a family’s diet, but allows them to sell the excess, earning income that improves their overall station in life.
Gift Option: $15 will provide 250 baby fish.
Water Filters: The difference between having water and having clean water is dramatic. Dirty water can contain deadly diseases and parasites that put families in rural Cambodia at risk with every sip.
Gift Option: $30 provides a water filter to equip one household with a daily supply of fresh, clean water for drinking, washing, and cooking.
5-Gallon canister of safe drinking water in Serbia: Safe water keeps communities healthy by enabling you to wash the food you’re going to eat, your clothes, your living space and, of course, yourself. Roughly one in nine people still don’t have clean water in or near their homes. Your gift can help provide safe water year-round with families who need it.
Gift Option: $5 provides a 5-gallon canister of safe drinking water in Serbia.
Access to a Community Water System for a family in Kenya: In Kenya’s dry season, water is hard to come by. Families have long daily commutes in the dangerous heat to find water – precious time they could be using to farm, study or work. Your gift presents year-round access to clean water for a family through your support of community water projects. Thank you for helping others stay hydrated and healthy!
Gift Option: $10 provides access to a community water system for a family in Kenya.
