2023 RUC CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR'S ALTERNATIVE GIVING PROGRAM

This Year’s Recipient

Church World Service (CWS)

building a world where there is enough for all

Church World Service (CWS) is a faith-based organization born in the wake of WWII and provides community-led support to marginalized and hard to reach communities in more than  25 countries. Known for its just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement, and disaster, its vision is a world where all have food, voice, and a safe place to call home. CWS works with partners as diverse as small community organizations in the U.S. and abroad to the United Nations. Though its mission has never been about conversion, it has used faith as the springboard into action.

Water, sanitation and hygiene programs are priorities of Church World Service. Its food security, health and livelihood programs range from crop diversification and water access at health posts to renewable energy. Emergency preparedness and response, migrant support and refugee resettlement, as well as climate change adaptation are also vital programs.
 

Donations will be divided equally between these four projects:
 

• Biosand water filters in rural Myanmar where safe water did not exist or was wiped out by flooding.

• Hospital visits and medical care for unaccompanied refugee children in Jakarta who arrive in Indonesia having taken long, difficult journeys for safety without their families. 

• Information for families about schooling girls in rural Kenya, overcoming whatever obstacles stand in the way and maximizing the benefits to the whole household.

• A month’s worth of emergency food rations for families displaced by years of natural disasters in West Pokot, Kenya.