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CWS Afghan aid expands |
CWS expands its Afghan refugee aid target to
$6.8 million
Church World Service is expanding its Afghan refugee
aid to provide both family shelter kits and 6-months supplies of food.
[10-26-01]
October 12, 2001, NEW YORK CITY -- Church World
Service is expanding its planned assistance to Afghan refugees to
include both shelter and a six-month supply of food to 15,000 families,
consisting of 105,000 persons.
The goal of this $6.28 million effort is for CWS
Pakistan/Afghanistan to provide emergency shelter and food to some of
the most vulnerable families who are either internally displaced or have
crossed the border into Pakistan. Particular attention will be paid to
female-headed households.
Already more than two million people in Afghanistan
are living with acute or high food shortages, according to a survey by
the United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP). Some 1 million refugees
are expected to arrive eventually in Pakistan. Pakistan is already home
to some 2 million Afghan refugees.
Church World Service, the global humanitarian service
and witness ministry of the (U.S.) National Council of Churches, and
other members of the Geneva, Switzerland-based Action by Churches
Together International network are working as part of a U.N.
coordinating committee to respond to the humanitarian crisis.
CWS earlier had announced a $1.5 million planned
program to shelter 15,000 families. It is appealing to NCC/CWS member
denominations and their adherents for support for the $6.8 million
program, expanded to include food.
Contributions may be directed to: Pakistan/Afghanistan
Emergency, Account #6930, CHURCH WORLD SERVICE, P.O. Box 968, Elkhart,
IN, 46515. On-line contributions to: www.churchworldservice.org
By phone: (800) 297-1516.
Family shelter kits for new arrivals in the border
cities of Quetta and Peshawar, Pakistan, and the rural areas of
Hazarajat and Panjsher Valley, Afghanistan, include a family tent, tarp,
plastic ground sheet, and four blankets. Estimated cost is $90 each.
The proposed food package will include a six-month
supply of wheat, cooking oil, rice, beans, sugar and tea. Each of the
food packages costs $256.
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PVJ's
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Voices of Sophia blog
Heather Reichgott, who has created
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in whose image women are made. .... This blog seeks to glorify God
through prayer, work, art, and intellectual reflection. Through
articles and ensuing discussion we hope to become an active and
thoughtful community. |
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John Harris’ Summit to
Shore blogspot
Theological and philosophical
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York City and the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood by a progressive
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Witherspoon board, and is designated pastor of North Presbyterian
Church in Flushing, NY. |
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John Shuck’s Shuck and Jive
A Presbyterian minister, currently
serving as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton,
Tenn., blogs about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized
and disorganized), life, evolution, literature, Jesus, and
lightening up. |
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