CWS assists flood survivors in Pakistan and India
Pakistan
Storm-induced flooding has caused widespread displacement in parts of Pakistan, particularly along the coastal regions of Sindh and Balochistan provinces.
Church World Service is providing assistance to more than 20,000 households in Gadap town and Karachi, Sindh Province; Thatta District, Sindh Province; and Turbat District, Balochistan Province. Assistance includes reconstruction materials for 1,300 of the families; preventive and curative health services for 33,750 people and vaccinations for 15,000 through five mobile health clinics; hygiene kits and health and hygiene training for 2,000 families; safe water and sanitary facilities for 12,000 of the families; and community services and psychosocial support for selected families. Church World Service has also distributed food packages and plastic sheets to some of the most vulnerable families in Gadap and Thatta.
Church World Service is seeking funds to assist flood-affected families in Pakistan, as well as in India, which has also experienced heavy flooding.
Rural leaders in Haiti gain agricultural and management training
Haiti
Some 300 women and men on La Gonave Island, Haiti, are training as agricultural agents and rural community organizers, through a program of Church World Service-supported partner Service Chretien d'Haiti (Christian Service of Haiti).
The women and men are learning skills in leadership, management, crop protection and grain storage, livestock production and veterinary health, fruit grafting techniques, natural resource and environmental management, including soil and water conservation, marketing, disaster preparedness and response, conflict resolution, and project planning.
The training is helping to empower 55 grassroots organizations to assume responsibility in major decisions affecting the future of the island.