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Friends, This year we marked 60 years of service to the poor overseas—an In Ethiopia we helped prevent a famine that threatened millions. achievement well worth celebrating. But this milestone also calls us But food and water alone won’t solve the problem. And so we are to reflect, to look back on what we’ve learned and to continue laying the foundations of the future through work in areas like toward our vision of a world transformed through solidarity. education and agriculture. Our goal is to ensure that this In her chronicle of the early history of CRS, Catholic Relief Services: generation of Ethiopian children will be the last to know famine. The Beginning Years, Eileen Egan—a close friend of Mother Teresa In Afghanistan and Iraq, we are helping people brutalized by Ken Hackett and one of the agency’s first lay staff members—traces our true repression and war to realize their dignity. But rebuilding a society beginning back much further than 1943 and war-torn Europe. She requires more than simply bricks and mortar. Underpinning all our dates our roots back to the apostle Paul. His request, through Titus, relief and development work is a commitment to building Table of Contents that the Corinthians assist the poor and hungry in Jerusalem communities of peace and justice. Material assistance can only go Food for Today 2-3 produced the first international relief collection: so far to alleviate poverty and suffering; we must also address the root causes to truly make a difference. A Fight We Must Win 4-5 “Giving freely to relieve the wants of people unrelated by blood In the United States, we have expanded our outreach to Catholics, Peace in Our Time 6-7 or tribal ties, people separated by seas and mountains, people educating them about issues of international social justice and of differing customs and language, was a new and scandalous When Crisis Calls 8-9 peace, and providing concrete opportunities to make a difference in concept. It was based on something unheard of in human Lending Our Voice 10-11 the lives of the poor around the world. Through our partners and history, universal brotherhood. This concept, dissolving all ties programs, we are building bridges of solidarity. Linking the people The Faces of CRS 12-13 of blood, tribe, race, or citizenship, came direct from Jesus, the we serve with those we represent is an important step in building a universal brother.” Financial Summary 14-19 world where basic rights and human dignity are enjoyed by all. Country and Regional Our legacy is indeed one that proceeds from this ‘scandalous Our Catholic identity and our guiding principles, grounded in Representatives 20 concept’—that of concern beyond borders. Catholic social teaching, call us to this work. We live in a world Diocesan Directors 21 of need, but we are an agency of hope, and we can all be agents Much has changed in 60 years: we are no longer War Relief of change. Donor Acknowledgement 22 Services, and our focus has shifted from western Europe to eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. We have For 60 years, Catholic Relief Services has touched the lives of the Our Leadership 23 seen countries freed from colonial rule and witnessed the struggles poor and made a world of difference for millions. Your prayers and CRS Around the World (Map) 24 and suffering as the Cold War found new staging grounds. And we support have made this possible. On behalf of our staff around the have seen the destruction that HIV/AIDS has wrought around the world, I thank you. world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Cover photo by CRS Staff: Italy 1951 Each day in 94 countries and territories around the world, the men Refugees share in the distribution of and women of CRS—people of all races and faiths—give witness to 1,200 lbs. of butter at Trieste Mission, Ken Hackett part of a Christmas gift from War Relief our mission of helping the poorest of the poor. President Services, N.C.W.C.

Food for Today, The majority of Ethiopians live in rural areas, leaving them extremely vulnerable Hope for Tomorrow to drought and crop failure. Photo by David Snyder

In 2003, Ethiopia faced a food With family members absent or often children under five. In This can only be accomplished plan. By bringing together local a future where food aid is not crisis even larger and more too sick to work, many more addition to food distribution, by addressing the underlying seed sellers with farmers, we needed. Likewise, with widespread than the one that people are susceptible to we worked with partners to causes of poverty in Ethiopia. In help create a vibrant local initiatives that offer education, captured the world’s attention hunger and disease than in deliver much needed medicine partnership with the church and market. Using vouchers, the basic healthcare and support almost 20 years ago. Drought previous generations. and help rehabilitate wells and other local groups, we are farmers can decide for for families affected by and the resultant failure of crops water systems. working to help ordinary people themselves what they want to HIV/AIDS, we look to created an emergency on a scale Preventing Famine develop the skills to take charge plant instead of relying simply empower Ethiopians for unseen in modern times. More We responded by providing Providing for the Future of their own development. The on whatever is available in generations to come. than 13 million Ethiopians— more than 500,000 metric tons The worst of the crisis is now overwhelming majority of donated stock. This encourages half of them under age 15— of commodities—food, flour, over, but the needs remain. Ethiopians live in rural areas, diversification of crops and were dependant on food aid corn-soy blend, lentils, cooking With our partners, we continue making them susceptible to recognizes that local people are for survival. oil and grain—to millions in to distribute food to millions of drought and crop failure in ways sometimes the best people to need. But fighting famine Ethiopians. Beyond food aid, unimaginable to most. To help solve local problems. We are working with local partners to The reach of the HIV/AIDS bring clean water to rural villages. Here, requires more than just delivery however, we are committed to mitigate this vulnerability, we a worker upgrades a water pump that pandemic only exacerbated the Ethiopia is a drought-prone will eventually pump 12,200 liters per of food. We led a coalition of long-term sustainable are investing in improved hour—nearly 10 times the capacity of situation, leaving more than a country, and we know we international agencies that development that will help A child in Shinile, Ethiopia cares for his irrigation systems. By providing the old pump. million orphans and lowering family’s livestock. cannot change the weather. We carried out assessments across communities recover and be better tools and fertilizers, we Photo by Elizabeth Griffin the country’s average life Photo by David Snyder can, however, help people to Ethiopia. In the worst affected better prepared for the future. are helping farmers become expectancy to 46 years. Among become more resilient and to areas, we set up therapeutic more efficient. the net effects of the pandemic break the cycle of poverty and feeding centers to reach the has been the undermining of Local seed fairs—conducted for hunger. Through programs that most vulnerable Ethiopians, A twin-engine traditional coping systems: U.S. Air Force plane the first time this year in help farmers become self- crashes into War Relief Services Ethiopia—are also part of this sufficient, we can offer hope for offices in the Empire State Building, killing 11 employees. July 28, 1945 More than 13 million Ethiopians—half Paris, France 1945 of them under age 15—rely on food War Relief Services (part of National aid to survive. Catholic Welfare Conference) The first Atomic Bomb To help finance postwar Photo by Elizabeth Griffin supplies hot soup and milk to the is dropped on Hiroshima, international relief programs, day nurseries of Paris. Japan, followed War Relief Services initiates the John William Mauchly designs three days later by another first annual Laetare Sunday The partition of India and Pakistan Photo by War Relief Services’ staff the first all-electronic computer. dropped on Nagasaki. Bishops' Relief Collection. causes mass migration, resulting It weighs over 30 tons. August 8, 1945 1947 in wide-scale violence. 1946 Fifty million people are left homeless. War Relief Services (later Catholic Relief Services) NATO is founded. War Relief Services begins shipments begins disaster relief efforts, helping thousands April 4, 1949 of surplus food to the area. of refugees displaced by World War II. Birth of United Nations. August 1947 1943 1945

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We support approximately 160 partners to provide voluntary Sub-Saharan Africa has 70 percent of Almost a third of Zimbabwe’s Raising Awareness Here In Zimbabwe, accelerated learning worldwide AIDS cases but only 5 percent at Home programs help reintegrate vulnerable HIV/AIDS projects in 30 counseling and testing, of the world’s population. We recognize a population is HIV-positive, children—long denied access to countries around the world, behavior change and life skills special responsibility to the people of and nearly a million children In the United States we work to education—into mainstream schools. Africa and allocate more than 50 percent Photo by Joe Carney addressing a crisis that has education, home-based care of our resources to outreach in 37 have been orphaned by AIDS. raise awareness of the disease, become as much an issue of for those infected and support countries in Africa. We support a range of in part through our Africa Photo by Sean Sprague development as of public health for those left behind. We also activities, including the Campaign speakers’ tour, in many nations. Projects total work at the village level to Magama Life Center, which which enables our African $40 million in value and reach help raise awareness about the provides a primary school for national staff to meet and talk disaster. He embodies the hope nearly four million people disease, to help reduce the nearly 800 children—almost to concerned Americans in and resilience that carries us affected in Africa—the stigma against HIV-positive half of whom are orphans. their hometowns. Abbie Shawa, forward in the face of this epicenter of the crisis—as well individuals and to assist Many of the most vulnerable Program Manager for relentless disease.

as the hardest hit areas of Asia communities to respond students also come on HIV/AIDS in Malawi, traveled CRS/Madagascar’s AIDS team in the lab and Latin America. more effectively. Saturdays for a full day that across the United States in conducting HIV tests. Our work in the country is done in partnership with includes play time, drama and In 2003, we received a $2.3 2003 to talk about his country’s The Association of Catholic Doctors Reaching Communities dancing, school work and of Madagascar. million grant to address AIDS triple disaster of HIV/AIDS, Around the World chores such as cleaning, Photo by CRS/Madagascar in Nigeria, while in drought and floods and how it Around the world, the gardening and washing school Madagascar we received a $1.5 affects communities, families Catholic Church is one of the Women who are HIV-positive serve as uniforms. As in a family, these million grant from the Global counselors in local communities, part of a and individuals like him. He key providers of essential care larger effort aimed at raising awareness children have roles and brought to each church, school Fund to Fight AIDS, by AIDS. The credit program contribute to community about HIV/AIDS. and support for people living responsibilities, and they and community center he Tuberculosis and Malaria. establishes community banks savings plans. These small Photo by Sean Sprague with AIDS. We continue to regain a sense of place and an visited a sense of what it’s like and teaches clients better loans often pay school fees for work with local church health In Haiti, we support a local identity beyond that of a to live, work and cope in the Italy, 1951 organization that provides financial management tools, children, buy medicines for the A Mercy Flight from New York networks to expand HIV/AIDS parentless child. midst of such trauma and International (Idlewild) Airport, programming, helping small loans to families affected while also enabling them to sick and support income- carrying food and condensed milk for generating projects. Italian flood relief efforts is sponsored by War Relief Services and Trans World Airlines. Hundreds of thousands of Photo by War Relief Services’ staff refugees from the Korean War War Relief Services conducts its first The U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of are helped by War Relief Services Thanksgiving clothing appeal, Brown v. Board of Education, rules that with food, medicine and clothing. collecting millions of pounds of clothing for War Relief Services provides aid to segregation is unconstitutional. “War” is dropped from emergencies, sewing classes overseas and 1951 Hawaii becomes CBS introduces the first Jonas Salk the nearly one million refugees The decision eventually results in the War Relief Services; as donations to workers participating in The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the 50th state admitted color television develops a vaccine fleeing North Vietnam. desegregation of all public institutions. the agency officially changes its name CRS provides 62 percent of all community construction projects. the first satellite, into space, to the union. broadcast. It takes place to prevent polio. 1954 1954 to Catholic Relief Services. U.S. government food distributed by The program continues through the 1980s. marking the beginning of the Space Age. August 21, 1959 in five American cities. 1952 1955 private voluntary organizations. 1950 October 4, 1957 1951 late 50s

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Peace in Our Time

For too many around the world, International peacekeepers— Mitrovica, to address the needs was the first of its kind and peace remains a distant goal. reminders of the region’s recent of all citizens and to find ways helped bring Nigeria’s different There are children in many troubles—guard the bridges in to work together to build a religious communities together places who have never known an attempt to prevent renewed future where soldiers aren’t in action and in understanding. their world without war. We are violence. We have been working needed on their city’s bridges. working to help change this in with youth councils in Building a Global Network more than 50 countries. Mitrovica’s high schools to Standing Together Against for Peace empower students and their Violence We support learning at home We know that peace is built, not parents and teachers to get When deadly Muslim-Christian and abroad. In partnership declared. Our efforts to create involved in addressing the violence—associated with the Peacebuilding is an integral part of with the University of Notre societies of peace and justice development work in places like We are working with local partners in conflicts in their communities. Miss World Pageant in Kaduna, Afghanistan, where many have known Dame’s Kroc Institute for our Baltimore headquarters, dozen countries participated in Serbia and Montenegro to help lay the are carried out through many only conflict their whole lives. foundation for peace for future These groups are taking up Nigeria—began to tear apart International Peace, we who focus on activities in the the fourth annual Mindanao activities, including education Photo by Barbara J. Rodey generations. issues of education quality and neighborhoods, we organized conduct a 10-day summer United States, as well as our Peacebuilding Institute—a Photo by Bill Crandall programs, interreligious reform, as well as issues of an unprecedented interfaith institute for peacebuilders to domestic partners, also come unique, three-week learning dialogue, media campaigns, helped keep the multi-faith peace and conflict resolution. emergency relief project and meet, learn and share best to learn from their overseas opportunity that unites advocacy and small-business character of these The youth councils are brought together the major practices. Participants come counterparts. peacebuilding practitioners and assistance. These activities aim neighborhoods. We worked expressing a voice that has long national Christian and Islamic from areas with histories of thinkers from across Asia to to empower local communities with the associations to identify In the Philippines, we are been silent for people in associations. The project conflict, like Colombia, as well increase the effectiveness of field to help themselves. A young Roma boy in Kragujevac, Serbia affected families and to developing innovative ways to Kosovo, and the program has provided shelter and assistance as from places struggling to operations and inform emerging and Montenegro. We are working to help organize interfaith relief promote peace and brought people from both sides integrate Roma—the most marginalized to families whose homes had heal, like Rwanda. Staff from theories in the field. Bridging the Divide group in Europe—into society through distribution teams. The project reconciliation among of the river together. Last peace education programs. been damaged when they were A river runs through the center indigenous peoples, Muslims summer Serb and Albanian Photo by Bill Crandall targeted as minorities in their of Mitrovica, Kosovo, dividing and Christians on the southern students decided to create a neighborhoods. This enabled the city and separating the Serb island of Mindanao. This year multi-ethnic youth council for the return of these families and and Albanian communities. peacebuilders from more than a

Rwandan youth take part in a closing Italy, 1963 ceremony at a solidarity camp in the Hurricane disaster relief Diocese of Kabgayi. President Kennedy is loaded. More than one million people are displaced Nuclear war is is assassinated. during the Biafran War (a war of secession Photo by Jean Claude Mugenzi November 22, 1963 CRS Archives, photographer unknown narrowly averted during In response to devastating drought in what is now east and southeast Nigeria). Neil Armstrong, of Apollo 11, the Cuban Missile Crisis. in India, CRS establishes massive During the ensuing famine, CRS provides Martin Luther King Jr. is the first man to The Berlin Wall October 18-29, 1962 Second Vatican Council food-for-work projects, life-saving emergency aid despite is assassinated. set foot on the Moon. is constructed. opens under preventing mass migration to cities total blockage of seaports and roads in the east. April 4, 1968 July 20, 1969 1961 Pope John XXIII. and assisting rural development. CRS organizes more than 100 risky nighttime 1962 1963 mercy airlifts of food and medicine. 1968

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When Crisis Calls

For 60 years we have been there Iraq their priority needs and Liberia support to secure the country in Liberia. This commitment is when crisis called—from the We are assisting the poorest and recommending reconstruction When Liberia’s long-running and aid its reconstruction. In expressed in short-term relief agency’s early days in post-war most vulnerable Iraqi projects in program areas such civil war peaked, rebel groups July, our long-time partner programs—like the one Europe to recent interventions communities. When major as water, sanitation and attacked the capital, overran the Archbishop Michael Francis— providing material assistance to after Hurricane Mitch and the combat subsided, we focused on agricultural irrigation systems; second city, and the president the archbishop of Monrovia more than 50,000 people in war in Afghanistan. The poor empowering Iraqis to address school and road rehabilitation; went into exile. As fighting and an internationally Monrovia, Buchanan and the suffer the most when disaster their own needs and shape their the establishment of women’s raged, our staff in Monrovia renowned defender of human city of Harbel—and longer strikes, and we are called to care own future. Our citizen-driven income-generation activities endured the same terrors and rights—visited the United term projects in agriculture, for those in need. Iraq Community Action and training centers; and tragedies that afflicted Liberians States and met members of infrastructure improvement community clean-up initiatives. Congress, the Bush and the training of local We are called to help others not Program enables Iraqis to across the country, where Tariq Ferage, 57, and his wife Nidhal Administration and the United peacebuilding organizations. Toma, 43, with five of their 10 children in because they believe, or because actively advance the We also support a nationwide bullets killed and wounded Baghdad. We are working with Caritas Nations. He also addressed the Iraq to reach those most in need. they might someday believe, but development of their supplemental feeding program indiscriminately, homes were national media with a message Photo by Carlos Reyes-Manzo because we believe. Our agency communities, putting an Iraqi for children and pregnant and looted and an atmosphere of of peace and reconciliation. vision of a world transformed face on humanitarian efforts lactating women. The program insecurity was further driven by solidarity is one that asks us serving the Iraqi people. raises awareness in local into the nation’s consciousness. Despite improvements, not simply to recall the example As part of this program, we are communities about proper While we worked with the local significant portions of the of the Good Samaritan, but to working—through our local hygiene and good nutritional church to deliver emergency country remain insecure and live it. partner Caritas Iraq and in habits, helping build a more food, shelter, clean water and Fighting caused many Liberians to flee inaccessible to aid agencies. their homes, leaving them dependent on partnership with Save the responsible, informed and medicines, we redoubled assistance for survival. Hundreds of thousands remain We have provided emergency relief Children—in 25 communities active Iraqi civil society. advocacy efforts in the United Photo by Caritas Liberia homeless and in need of for those in need since 1943. Our assistance. We remain work in Afghanistan includes relief as in southern Iraq to help rebuild States, calling for increased well as long-term development. homes and lives. Local committed to working toward Photo ©2003 Martin Lueders communities are determining peace, justice and reconciliation

CRS’ quick response and partnership Peru, 1972 In the wake of a devastating earthquake with COERR (Catholic Organization for Victims try to escape flooding in that killed an estimated 10,000 people in Managua, The U.S. Catholic Bishops adopt Mother Teresa Emergency Relief and Refugees) Peruvian lowlands. American dioceses collect over $3 million Operation Rice Bowl, CRS’ official is awarded the saves thousands of lives and promotes Lenten program, which began in Nobel Peace Prize. skill-building and food production in Thailand's for CRS relief efforts in Nicaragua. In addition to Apollo-Soyuz Mission marks CRS Archives, photographer unknown Allentown, Pennsylvania as an 1979 refugee camps, sheltering those fleeing helping to meet basic physical needs, CRS the first cooperative space mission inter-religious response to the drought Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. contributes to rehabilitation and reconstruction. between the United States and in the African Sahel region. Pope John Paul II Overall, aid reaches 300,000 people. 1972 the Soviet Union. Apple II, the first home computer, 1977 is installed. 1979 July 19, 1974 is introduced at a trade show. 1977 1978

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Lending Our Voice

Speak out for those who cannot speak. For the rights of all encountered. “We think they Global Solidarity Partnerships, like the international public policy Operation Rice Bowl, Food Fast, investment in health, education, the destitute speak out, judge righteously. Defend the rights of only need money and houses; one between the Diocese of Trenton and overseas immersion experiences water, roads and other vital the Diocese of Kasana-Luweero, help advocacy efforts. Our legislative the poor and the needy. they really need support people to recognize their neighbors and partnerships between necessities. But history has around the world and build bridges of network grew five-fold during — Proverbs 31:8-9 and love.” solidarity. 2003, totaling about 1,200 dioceses here and abroad. The shown that ordinary Africans Photo by Chris Arthen underlying goal of the programs will see no such improvements if Promoting such charity, diocesan and parish contacts. is to combine education and governments lack accountability. beyond the depth of a pocket, Working alongside the U.S. international policies that action so that Catholics in the Last summer, we issued a report undergirds all our programs for Conference of Catholic Bishops, provide resources that allow us United States are actively entitled Bottom of the Barrel: Catholics in the United States. we successfully rallied the to reach more of the world’s engaged in creating a more just, Africa’s Oil Boom and the Poor, Each program, whether a Catholic community behind poor and disenfranchised—and sustainable and peaceful world examining the issue of African diocese-to-diocese partnership policies to increase aid to policies that take on the root for all of God’s people. oil development and offering or an initiative to support rebuild war-torn countries like causes of war, poverty and recommendations for policy foreign aid legislation on Afghanistan and Iraq as well as injustice. We stepped up Oil and Africa’s Poor reforms. Bottom of the Barrel, Capitol Hill, is an invitation to funding for critical programs opportunities to engage In a decade, Africa will supply which was downloaded from the raise our voices on behalf of that deliver food and medicines Catholics at home, helping nearly a quarter of the oil CRS website more than 100,000 millions muted by poverty, war, to the needy worldwide. them to understand how their consumed in the United States, times and received much oppression or mere choices as consumers, investors, Empowering Catholics generating more than $200 attention in Catholic and circumstance. Rooted in Born as a response to Hurricane Mitch, Delegates from the Diocese of Madison voters and advocates resonate continued to empower Catholics billion in revenues. Such wealth secular press around the world, visited schools in the Diocese of A man from the Diocese of Catholic social teaching, it is at Home the Texas-Honduras partnership has Navrongo-Bolgatanga, Ghana during a beyond our borders. grown over time, bringing the two to serve as a voice for the poor could enable African serves as a central document to two-week visit. Pictured are Jeffry and Trenton, New Jersey, had an our heritage and responsibility. We are not only improving the communities—Catholics from 14 diocese Off Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, a Jennifer (far left and standing), from the in Texas and the people of Honduras— and put their faith into action governments to vastly improve shape and direct our advocacy fisherman gazes at an offshore oil epiphany during a visit to a Civic Engagement lives of millions of the poor and closer together. Diocese of Madison; Jim (center), a Last year we worked with through programs such as the lives of the poor through on the issue. platform. African governments will member of CRS/Ghana staff; and Sr. partner diocese in Uganda last vulnerable around the globe, Photo by Kim Burgo receive more than $200 billion in oil Martha, from Navrongo Parish. Catholics in the United States There has been a steady increase revenue in the coming decade. We are year. “They don’t need many of but we are equally committed to working to help ensure that ordinary Photo by Jeffry Allen and abroad to be voices in in diocesan and parish the things we think they do,” changing hearts and minds here Africans benefit from the boom. support of U.S. and involvement in our he said of the people he in the United States. The agency Jerusalem/West Bank, Gaza, 1988 Photo by L. Charrier, Secours Catholique CRS grant supports a small enterprise wheat-grinding venture for Palestinian families.

CRS Archives, photographer unknown Famine takes nearly one million lives in Ethiopia. CRS moves world headquarters CRS tends to the tens of thousands By the end of 1984, CRS distributes 36,000 tons of food, The Berlin from New York City left homeless and injured during Space Shuttle Columbia Lawrence A. Pezullo, mostly supplied by the U.S. government, and feeds Wall falls. to Baltimore, Maryland. 1989 the Mezzogiorno earthquake in Italy. is the first shuttle a former U.S. ambassador, approximately 750,000 Ethiopians. During the crisis, CRS begins its first HIV/AIDS initiative August 1989 1980 to orbit the Earth. becomes the first lay executive CRS handles the distribution of 90 percent of Space Shuttle Challenger in Uganda with a local church partner. April 12, 1981 director for CRS. American food aid entering the country. explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, 1989 July 1983 1984 claiming the lives of all on board. January 28, 1986

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The Faces of CRS

steering committee. She also did 1,000 people who had been home…By offering me We serve the poorest of the CRS/Rwanda staff meet with a local poor, on behalf of Catholics in community member in Gisenyi. some carpentry work in the left homeless. education, CRS empowered me the United States, in 94 Photo by David Snyder new buildings. While Emine’s for life.” biggest challenge following the Thomas Abaruk Awiapo, countries and territories Before coming to the United The school serves the earthquake was “to stay alive,” California around the world. We come States to pursue graduate community’s most needy she is thankful that she survived Orphaned before he was 10 from all races and faiths, united studies, Thomas worked for children—many of them and feels honored to be given years old, Thomas lost his two in a belief in the dignity of CRS in Ghana. He is currently orphaned by AIDS—and offers this new start. The housing younger brothers to every person and the vision of an intern with the agency, social services to their families, Emine Baskurt,Turkey project is now completed and malnutrition. Like his parents solidarity that tells us we can working with our regional staff in particular addressing the offers a roof to approximately and many poor people in build a better world—one life, In addition to losing five in the Bay Area (Diocese of physical and emotional ravages Ghana, he had never been to one relationship at a time. This relatives, Emine Baskurt, 39, Oakland). When he finishes his of the disease. Tafadzwa, whose school. Today Thomas is is work that goes on every day also lost her home in the 1999 degree, Thomas plans to return parents died of AIDS, leads a pursuing a Master’s degree in in the lives of our beneficiaries, Tafadzwa Chimwanda earthquake in Düzce, Turkey. to his wife and three children in Photo by Joe Carney “kids club” of 150 students, Public Administration at through the hard work of our Four years after she moved to a Ghana and hopes to continue in serving as a tutor and mentor California State University- staff and thanks to the tent camp with her son, Emine the work that made such a Tafadzwa Chimwanda, while clearly benefiting from Hayward. “CRS used to offer a generosity of our donors. qualified as one of the lasting difference in his life. Zimbabwe the experience herself. “It helps recipients of the 168 houses snack and lunch to children me psychologically because it built in Düzce with support who went to school in my Chris Gilson, Country Representative for “I love kids. They understand Vietnam, assists in a food distribution. makes me feel like I still have a from CRS and its partner the village. I was attracted to go to me,” says 19-year-old Tafadzwa Photo by Richard Lord family,” she says, “even though school not because I desired to Chimwanda, a volunteer youth International Blue Crescent my family is gone.” do so, but simply to have a counselor at the CRS-supported Emine Baskurt (IBC). Emine was actively Photo by Franne Van der Keilen snack and lunch, which I would Tsungiriai School in Zimbabwe. engaged in the construction process and served on the IBC’s not have had if I stayed Thomas Abaruk Awiapo Photo by CRS Staff

Agency-wide introspection in the wake of CRS responds to CRS responds to the Rwanda genocide moves CRS the devastation caused by devastating earthquakes Nearly one million people are killed in in Turkey. Yugoslavia, 1999 the Rwanda genocide. CRS staff, to reexamine its role in the world. Hurricane Mitch in The bombing of the The “Justice Lens,” a way of looking at Honduras, Nicaragua, 1999 The Hubble Telescope Children at a refugee camp operating from Burundi and Uganda, Mars Pathfinder lands NATO begins a 78-day offensive CRS is a leader in Murrah Federal Building in programming to ensure it not only meets Guatemala is launched into orbit. in Kukes, Albania. deliver emergency relief to thousands in need. and begins transmitting images in response to the ethnic tensions international relief efforts Oklahoma City leaves 168 dead. immediate needs but also challenges and El Salvador. April 24, 1990 1994 from the surface of Mars. between Serbs and Albanians necessitated by Photo by David Snyder April 19, 1995 traditional structures of oppression 1998 July 4, 1997 and repression by Serb forces the Balkan Conflict. and impoverishment, is born. in Kosovo. 1999 1997 March 1999

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Financial Summary CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES - Year ended September 30, 2003 UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS (in thousands) STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION September 30, 2003 Operating Revenue (With Comparative Totals for September 30, 2002) (in thousands) Agricultural, Contributions $ 98,349 20.30% Other Commodities Cash Grants from USG Assets 2003 2002 Agricultural, and Ocean Freight Other Commodities Cash and cash equivalents $ 41,100 $ 39,803 and Ocean Freight 261,821 54.06% Accounts receivable and other assets 45,352 36,197 Cash Grants From USG 109,128 22.53% Investments 85,971 82,065 All Other Support 15,066 3.11% All Other Support Segregated investments 38,685 36,815 Totals $ 484,364 100% Undistributed commodity contributions 49,466 17,723 Contributions Land, building and equipment, net 14,597 21,931 Operating Expenses Total assets $ 275,171 $ 234,534

Emergency Agriculture $ 42,819 8.22% Liabilities and Net Assets Agriculture Education 42,506 8.16% Small Enterprise Education Emergency 272,647 52.36% Liabilities Health Small Enterprise 14,520 2.79% Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 41,279 $ 31,953 HIV/AIDS Health 48,302 9.28% Advances received for programs 32,338 13,159 Peace and Justice HIV/AIDS 23,966 4.60% Welfare Deferred revenue 49,648 18,308 Peace and Justice 20,809 4.00% Management and General Annuities payable 31,708 29,850 Welfare 24,738 4.75% Public Awareness Total liabilities 154,973 93,270 Management and General 9,910 1.90% Fundraising Photo ©2003 Martin Lueders Public Awareness 2,823 0.55% Fundraising 17,667 3.39% Net assets Totals $ 520,707 100% Unrestricted 77,327 80,361 Temporarily restricted 39,829 58,241 CRS holds the “World Summit,” an agency-wide Permanently restricted 3,042 2,662 gathering of staff, partners and friends from around the world. The agency’s vision of solidarity as a force The United States invades Afghanistan. CRS and 14 other agencies sign Total net assets 120,198 141,264 that will transform the world is born. CRS reopens offices inside Afghanistan, and the Baltimore Declaration at CRS’ headquarters. October 2000 establishes offices in Pakistan near the The document is a pledge of action in response Total liabilities and net assets $ 275,171 $ 234,534 Afghan border. The agency provides to the growing food crisis in Africa. Terrorists attack and destroy the Twin Towers emergency assistance to 500,000 people 2002 Mother Teresa is beatified. In the interest of stewardship, CRS decided not to include the financial notes in the 2003 Annual of the World Trade Center in New York City, and initiates longer term development efforts October 2003 killing thousands. Hijacked planes are also crashed at focused on education and peacebuilding. The United States Report. What follows are the statements of financial position, activities, cash flows and the schedule the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 2001 and allies invade Iraq. of functional expenses. September 11, 2001 March 2003 The complete financial statements, audited by RSM McGladrey, LLP, are available at www.catholicrelief.org/about_us/financial_information/summary.cfm or by calling 1.410.951.7240

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CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES - CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES - UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS Year Ended September 30, 2003 Year ended September 30, 2003 (With summarized comparative totals for the year ended September 30, 2002) (With comparative amounts for September 30, 2002) (in thousands) (in thousands) Temporarily Permanently Total Temporarily Permanently Total Unrestricted Restricted Restricted 2003 2002 Unrestricted Restricted Restricted 2003 2002 2003 2002 2003 2002 Operating Revenues Operating Expenses Cash Flows from Operating Activities Cash Flows from Investing Activities Private donor, foundation and Program services $ 490,307 ––490,307 255,938 Changes in net assets $ (21,066) $ (29,134) Proceeds from sale of land, building corporate contributions: Adjustments to reconcile changes in net assets to and equipment 321 269 Bishops' Committee allocation $ 13,415 ––13,415 12,789 Supporting services: net cash used in operating activities: Purchase of land, building and equipment (4,866) (5,075) Operation Rice Bowl appeal – 5,718 – 5,718 6,135 Management and general 9,910 – – 9,910 11,875 Depreciation 5,213 5,202 Proceeds from sales and maturities of investments 75,797 175,349 Contributions 54,610 22,638 – 77,248 84,180 Public awareness 2,823 – – 2,823 3,472 Loss on disposal of land, building and equipment 163 346 Purchase of investments (62,618) (160,556) In-kind contributions 1,968 ––1,968 8,725 Fund-raising 17,667 ––17,667 19,089 Loss on asset impairment 6,503 – Total contributions 69,993 28,356 – 98,349 111,829 Net cash provided by investing activities 8,634 9,987 Total supporting services 30,400 –– 30,400 34,436 Realized loss sales of investments 1,015 466 Government, international organizations Total operating expenses 520,707 ––520,707 290,374 and other exchange transactions: Unrealized (gain) loss on investments (19,970) 13,447 Cash Flows from Financing Activities Donated agricultural, other Change in net assets from Effect of change in operating accounts: operations (17,454) (18,889) – (36,343) (21,530) Loan proceeds 25 100 commodities and ocean freight 261,821 – – 261,821 56,105 Increase in accounts receivable and other assets (9,155) (3,026) Principal payments on long-term debt (66) (171) Grants and agreements: Increase in undistributed commodity United States government 109,128 – – 109,128 85,671 Non-operating Revenues and (Expenses) Increase in annuities payable, net 1,858 2,693 contributions (31,743) (3,776) Other 6,176 – – 6,176 6,847 Contributions 6,087 – – 6,087 5,618 Net cash provided by financing activities 1,817 2,622 Increase in accounts payable and Total 377,125 377,125 148,623 Net change in annuities and accrued expenses 9,367 5,088 Net increase in cash and cash equivalents 1,297 4,630 pooled income fund (961) 477 – (484) 1,016 Investment and other income 7,831 1,059 – 8,890 8,392 Increase in advances received Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year 39,803 35,173 Realized and unrealized gain (loss) Net assets released from restrictions 48,304 (48,304) ––– for programs 19,179 319 on non-segregated investments 18,883 – 380 19,263 (14,238) Cash and cash equivalents, end of year $ 41,100 $ 39,803 Total operating revenues 503,253 (18,889) – 484,364 268,844 Reorganization and other costs (9,589) ––(9,589) – Increase in deferred revenue 31,340 3,089 Total non-operating revenues Net cash used in operating activities (9,154) (7,979) Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information and expenses, net 14,420 477 380 15,277 (7,604) Cash payments for interest $ 51 $41 Change in net assets (3,034) (18,412) 380 (21,066) (29,134) Net assets, beginning of year 80,361 58,241 2,662 141,264 170,398 Net assets, end of year $ 77,327 39,829 3,042 120,198 141,264 18 19

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES - CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES - UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS SCHEDULE OF FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES SCHEDULE OF FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES Year ended September 30, 2003 Year ended September 30, 2003 (continued) (With summarized comparative totals for the year ended September 30, 2002) (With summarized comparative totals for the year ended September 30, 2002) (in thousands) (in thousands)

Total Total Total Program Services Support Services Operating Services Small Peace Management Public Description Agriculture Education Emergency Enterprise Health HIV/AIDS and Justice Welfare 2003 2002 and General Awareness Fundraising 2003 2002 2003 2002 Support Services Program Services Salaries and related benefits $ 6,813 831 4,546 12,190 12,208 79,664 76,096 Salaries and related benefits $ 5,597 9,767 19,443 6,134 13,152 3,600 5,585 4,196 67,474 63,888 Professional fees 976 292 2,959 4,227 5,818 10,411 11,606 Professional fees 740 959 1,437 714 890 377 846 221 6,184 5,788 Telecommunications and postage 303 20 3,936 4,259 4,338 6,861 6,943 Telecommunications and postage 245 415 661 278 297 179 380 147 2,602 2,605 Supplies, office expenses and other 163 53 5,715 5,931 7,654 15,703 14,462 Supplies, office expenses and other 895 1,060 2,405 1,266 1,920 342 969 915 9,772 6,808 Occupancy 367 30191 588 488 5,132 4,808 Occupancy 373 823 1,218 499 600 252 436 343 4,544 4,320 Vehicle and equipment 52 1 28 81 180 15,195 9,313 Vehicle and equipment 3,213 1,476 6,492 424 1,503 895 391 720 15,114 9,133 Travel, training and representation 545 129 234 908 1,063 13,664 14,023 Travel, training and representation 1,248 2,205 3,122 784 2,007 1,026 1,723 641 12,756 12,960 Warehousing and freight 25 – 33 58 51 126,839 38,956 Warehousing and freight 10,675 10,054 89,709 1,268 7,049 3,601 – 4,425 126,781 38,905 Publicity 37 1,456 4 1,497 2,026 1,504 2,036 Publicity 1 1 2 1 1 – 1 – 7 10 Advances to implementing partners 1 11 6 18 – 94,183 74,027 Advances to implementing partners 6,079 6,996 40,450 2,194 10,818 10,788 10,058 6,782 94,165 74,027 Food, other commodities and in-kind contributions – – –––146,338 32,902 Food, other commodities and in-kind contributions 13,214 8,210 107,442 – 9,658 1,624 – 6,190 146,338 32,902 Depreciation 628 – 15 643 610 5,213 5,202 Depreciation 539 540 266 958 407 1,282 420 158 4,570 4,592 Total expenses $ 9,910 2,823 17,667 30,400 34,436 520,707 290,374 Total expenses $ 42,819 42,506 272,647 14,520 48,302 23,966 20,809 24,738 490,307 255,938

(continued) Country Representatives 20 East Africa West Africa Archdiocese of New Orleans Montana Diocese of Fargo Diocese of Austin 21 Cameroon Mr. Thomas Costanza Diocese of Great Falls-Billings Rev. Joseph P. Goering Sr. Mary Lou Stubbs, DC Regional Director Central African Republic Regional Director Diocese of Shreveport Rev. Jay Peterson Diocese of Beaumont Jean-Marie Adrian William Rastetter Ohio Chad Rev. David Richter, VG Diocese of Helena Archdiocese of Cincinnati Ms. Letty Lanza Equatorial Guinea Maine Rev. Mr. Tony Duvernay Ms. Cori Thibodeau Diocese of Brownsville Country Representatives Country Representatives Rev. Eduardo Ortega Margaret Desilier Diocese of Portland Nebraska Diocese of Cleveland Country and RegionalBurundi Benin Mrs. Carleen Cook Diocese of Grand Island Mr. Rocky Ortiz Diocese of Corpus Christi Rwanda Democratic Republic of the Togo Most Rev. Lawrence J. McNamara, No Diocesan Director Named Maryland Diocese of Columbus David Leege Congo Christopher Bessey DD, STL Ms. Erin Cordle Diocese of Dallas Archdiocese of Baltimore Sr. Nancy Sullivan Congo Brazzaville Mrs. Mary D’Ambrogi Diocese of Lincoln Diocese of Steubenville Representatives Eritrea Burkina Faso Diocese of El Paso Kevin Hartigan Diocesan Directors Rev. Mark Huber Rev. Msgr. Gerald Calovini Jack Norman Mali Massachusetts Archdiocese of Omaha Diocese of Toledo Rev. John Stowe, O.F.M. Conv. Nigeria Dorothy Madison-Seck Archdiocese of Boston Rev. Joseph C. Taphorn Rev. Mr. Leo Bistak Diocese of Fort Worth Ethiopia No Diocesan Director Named Nicolas Ford Alabama Connecticut Diocese of Rockford Diocese of Youngstown Mr. Ralph McCloud Anne Bousquet Côte d’Ivoire Diocese of Birmingham Diocese of Bridgeport Mr. Thomas McKenna Diocese of Fall River Nevada Diocese of Galveston-Houston Diocese of Las Vegas Mr. Brian R. Corbin Latin America and the Middle East/ William Rastetter Very Rev. Brian Egan Mr. Brian A. Cronin Diocese of Springfield Rev. Msgr. George W. Coleman, VG Mrs. Hilda O. Hernandez Kenya Very Rev. Robert Stoeckig Southern Africa Archdiocese of Mobile Archdiocese of Hartford Mrs. Vicki Compton Diocese of Springfield Oklahoma Diocese of Laredo Caribbean North Africa Tanzania The Gambia Diocese of Reno Fr. William D. Skoneki Sr. Dorothy Strelchun Ms. Jan Denney Archdiocese of Oklahoma City No Diocesan Director Named Regional Director Regional Director Shirley Dady Regional Director Carla Brown-Ndiaye Indiana Br. Matthew Cunningham, FSR Rev. John A. Steichen Annemarie Reilly Alaska Diocese of Norwich Diocese of Evansville Diocese of Worcester Diocese of Lubbock Christine Tucker Rev. Msgr. Edmond T. Tinsley Diocese of Tulsa Jared M. Hoffman Sudan Ghana Archdiocese of Anchorage Rev. Msgr. Robert L. Brown Mr. James F. Collins New Hampshire Rev. Nicolas Rendon Diocese of Manchester Henry L. Harder, PhD Country Representatives Paul Townsend Country Representatives David Orth-Moore Ms. Angela Liston Diocese of Stamford Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend Michigan Diocese of San Angelo Country Representatives Rev. Jonathan Morse, PhD Rev. Msgr. John P. Quinn Oregon Msgr. Larry J. Droll Uganda Angola Guinea Diocese of Fairbanks Mr. Sean Wendlinder Archdiocese of Detroit Bolivia Egypt Mr. Tom Buzek Delaware Diocese of Gary Rev. Robert McClory New Jersey Diocese of Baker Archdiocese of San Antonio Ben Phillips Scott Campbell Vewonyi Adjavon No Diocesan Director Named Argentina Susan Silveus Diocese of Juneau Diocese of Wilmington Dr. Kenneth M. Flanagan, MSW Diocese of Gaylord Diocese of Camden Very Rev. Lawrence J. Stuebben, VG Archdiocese of Portland William Farrand Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza Somalia Madagascar Liberia Fr. Perry M. Kenaston Rev. George Brubaker Archdiocese of Indianapolis Ms. Beth Bauer Rev. John Muscat Diocese of Tyler Diocese of Metuchen Rev. Dennis O’Donovan, VG Ms. Maria Guadalupe Natera Jean-Marie Adrian Jennifer Overton Raymond L. Studer Arizona District of Columbia Mr. David J. Siler Diocese of Grand Rapids Brazil Don Rogers Mr. John Mitchell Rev. Joseph Kerrigan Diocese of Victoria Diocese of Phoenix Diocese of Lafayette Pennsylvania Peter Rothrock Malawi Niger Archdiocese of Military Services Rev. Dan Morales Morocco Ms. Kathy Saile Mr. David Levite Mr. David Wilson Diocese of Kalamazoo Archdiocese of Newark Diocese of Allentown Central Africa Schuyler Thorup Paul Armour Sr. Susan Ridley, OP Rev. Tom Nydegger Rev. Richard J. Ford Dominican Republic Suzanne Manzer Diocese of Tucson Archdiocese of Washington Iowa Utah Diocese of Paterson Regional Director Zambia Senegal Ms. Joanne Welter Mr. Edward J. Orzechowski Diocese of Davenport Diocese of Lansing Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown Diocese of Salt Lake City Guyana Iraq Mr. Joe F. Duffy Kevin Hartigan Michele Broemmelsiek Guinea-Bissau Mr. Dan Ebener Ms. Barbara Pott Rev. Bob Kelly Rev. Mr. Silvio Mayo Jamaica Jordan Arkansas Florida Diocese of Marquette Diocese of Trenton Diocese of Erie Diocese of Des Moines Vermont Venezuela Lebanon Zimbabwe Mauritania Diocese of Little Rock Archdiocese of Miami Rev. Lawrence T. Gauthier Rev. Brian T. Butch Ms. Rose Graham Godlove Ntaw Mrs. Sheila Gomez Mr. Richard Turcotte Mr. Tom Chapman Diocese of Burlington Andrew Rosauer Syria Janet Trucker Archdiocese of Dubuque Diocese of Saginaw New Mexico Diocese of Greensburg Sr. Mary McNamara California Diocese of Orlando Ms. Terri Grierson Rev. J. Edward McCullough Ecuador Turkey Botswana Sierra Leone Ms. Deborah Stafford Shearer Mr. James Yeast, LMSW Diocese of Gallup Diocese of Fresno Rev. Mr. James P. Hoy Diocese of Harrisburg Virginia Colombia Christine Tucker Lesotho Matthew Hochbrueckner Diocese of Palm Beach Diocese of Sioux City Minnesota Diocese of Arlington Mr. William Lucido Diocese of Las Cruces Rev. Msgr. Francis M. Kumontis Scott LeFevre Mr. Al Minutoli Msgr. Michael B. Sernett Diocese of Crookston Rev. Charles C. McCoart Namibia Archdiocese of Los Angeles Ms. Bernadette Dunn Rev. Msgr. John E. Anderson, VG Archdiocese of Philadelphia Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee Kansas Diocese of Richmond South Africa Ms. Maria Elena Perales Archdiocese of Santa Fe Mrs. Anne Healy Ayella El Salvador Rev. Joseph Fowler Diocese of Dodge City Diocese of Duluth Dr. Kathleen T. Kenney Diocese of Monterey Rev. Arkad Biczak Diocese of Pittsburgh Rick Jones Swaziland No Diocesan Director Named Rev. Lawrence O’Shea Sr. Laura Goedken Diocese of St. Augustine Rev. Ronald P. Lengwin Washington Annemarie Reilly Mr. Bill J. Tierney Diocese of New Ulm Guatemala China Diocese of Oakland Archdiocese of Kansas City New York Diocese of Scranton Archdiocese of Seattle Southeast Asia Rev. Bill Bowles Diocese of Albany Lane Bunkers North Korea Sr. Barbara Dawson Diocese of St. Petersburg No Diocesan Director Named Mr. James B. Earley Mr. J.L. Drouhard Mr. Arnold Andrews Diocese of St. Cloud Ms. Mary Coppola Diocese of Orange Diocese of Salina Diocese of Spokane Regional Director Taiwan Rev. William Vos Diocese of Brooklyn Rhode Island Haiti Mrs. Shirl Giacomi Diocese of Venice Rev. James E. Hake Ms. Donna M. Hanson Mark Pierce Thailand Ms. Bridget Sheehan Archdiocese of St. Paul Rev. Michael C. Gribbon Diocese of Providence Dula James Diocese of Sacramento Diocese of Wichita Diocese of Yakima Mark Pierce and Minneapolis Diocese of Buffalo Rev. Msgr. William Varsanyi, Rev. Michael F. Kiernan Sr. Ursula Fotovich, CSJ Mr. John L. Young Honduras Country Representatives Bulgaria Georgia Rev. Mr. Mickey Friesen Rev. Joseph J. Sicari JCD, PA Eastern Europe & Diocese of San Bernardino Archdiocese of Atlanta Kentucky Conor Walsh Romania Diocese of Winona Archdiocese of New York West Virginia Cambodia South Asia Rev. Reno Aiardi, IMC Mr. Jim Kantner Diocese of Covington South Carolina The Caucasus Ms. Suzanne Belongia Mr. George Horton Diocese of Charleston Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston Nicaragua Richard Balmadier Mila Gavrilova Diocese of San Diego Diocese of Savannah Ms. Sue Grethel Regional Director Diocese of Ogdensburg Ms. Dorothy Grillo, ASCW, LISW Mr. George Smoulder Lara Puglielli Regional Director Mr. Rodrigo Valdivia Mr. Stephen B. Williams Diocese of Lexington Mississippi East Timor Croatia Diocese of Biloxi Sr. Donna Franklin, DC Sean Callahan Archdiocese of San Francisco Rev. Mr. Bill Wakefield South Dakota Wisconsin Mark Schnellbaecher Jack Connolly Hawaii Sr. Rebecca Rutkowski, ACSW Peru Jamieson Davies Rev. Msgr. Harry G. 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Wolters Diocese of Knoxville Marc D’Silva Diocese of Alexandria Archdiocese of Milwaukee Erica Dahl-Bredine Doug Ryan Susan Cheung Macedonia Mr. Rich Fowler Illinois Sr. Mary Bordelon Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph North Carolina Fr. J. Vann Johnston, JCL Diocese of Belleville Sr. Jeanne Christensen Diocese of Charlotte Ms. Celia Jackson Pakistan John McCuen Colorado Diocese of Baton Rouge Diocese of Memphis Vietnam Azerbaijan Fr. Kenneth York Diocese of Springfield- Mr. Joseph Purello Diocese of Superior Luc Picard Diocese of Colorado Springs Ms. Peggy Stuart Ms. Caroline Tisdale Laos Jack Byrne Serbia and Montenegro Archdiocese of Chicago Cape Girardeau Diocese of Raleigh Mr. Steve Tarnowski Mr. Peter Howard, S.T.L. Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux Diocese of Nashville Chris Gilson Bangladesh Ms. Adrienne Curry Rev. Thomas E. Reidy Rev. Thomas S. Tully Bosnia-Herzegovina Thomas Garofalo Archdiocese of Denver Sr. Celeste Cotter, CSJ Rev. Mr. Hans Toecker Wyoming Nepal Diocese of Joliet Archdiocese of St. Louis Greg Auberry Mr. Al Hooper Diocese of Lafayette North Dakota Diocese of Cheyenne Russia Far East Mr. Thomas Garlitz Rev. Msgr. Bernard Sandheinreich Texas Ms. Elizabeth E. Groom, MSW Sri Lanka Diocese of Pueblo Ms. Una Hargrave Diocese of Bismarck Diocese of Amarillo Mark Schnellbaecher Diocese of Peoria Sean Callahan Mr. Larry Howe-Kerr Diocese of Lake Charles Mr. Ron Schatz Rev. Michael Colwell, JCL Msgr. Steven P. Rohlfs Rev. V. Wayne LeBleu 22 Joseph A. Cirrincione Roderick A. Maclean 23 Corporations, Mary L. Clark Elizabeth D. Marsi Foundations Elizabeth P. Coley-Smith Ludgardis S. Marxer and Organizations Margaret A. Conklin Jane McAuliffe Kathleen T. Costantini Margaret J. McDonagh Alternative Gifts International Martin J. Costello Frances McDonald Donor The Catholic Community Foundation of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul John B. Crahan Eugene T. McGraw and Minneapolis Barbara J. Craven Michael McHugh Church of Jesus Christ of the Mary L. Crosswhite Lucy R. Means Acknowledgement Latter-day Saints Marie A. Culmone Katherine A. Mullen Our Leadership Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund Wanda Damsz Rosemary Nairne We gratefully acknowledge the following private individuals, organizations, foundations and The Alfonso L. DeMatteis Frances C. Davidson Jane C. Nelson corporations who supported our work with $10,000 or more in fiscal year 2003. Family Foundation Board of Directors Executive Management CRS Leadership Council Edward B. Dillon, Jr. Mary R. Noltner We also extend our deepest thanks to thousands of others for their steadfast and continuous Dugas Family Foundation Bishop Robert N. Lynch Team Maristell Dixon Eileen O’Connell Ellen L. Barrosse support of our work. Their concern for those less fortunate is demonstrated every year by Ethiopian Sports Federation in President and Chair Kenneth F. Hackett their gifts to the Annual Bishops Overseas Appeal and to Operation Rice Bowl, and by their North America John M. Dolson Mary J. O’Gorman Diocese of St. Petersburg Jack Bush continuing support of all our programs. Their generosity helps make it possible for us to President The Father’s Table Foundation Fr. John R. Dowd Alfred W. Ohlendorf Bishop Michael A. Saltarelli Donald Carcieri alleviate human suffering and provide assistance to the world’s poor. Dorrett E. Lyttle Byrd The Ford Foundation Margaret E. Eberly Carmel O’Keefe Treasurer Thomas Driscoll The compilers have carefully reviewed the names that are listed. Donors are recognized for Deputy Executive Director, Gertrude N. Engelman Albert J. O’Neill Diocese of Wilmington gifts made during Fiscal Year 2003: October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2003. If a name has been Fraser Family Foundation Overseas Operations John Flaherty Ann England Angeline A. Pacholski Rev. Msgr. William P. Fay listed incorrectly or has been omitted, please accept our apologies and bring the mistake to Robert J. Frisby Foundation Fr. William Headley, CSSp, PhD Darcy Flynn Secretary the attention of: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Claire Frances Fabish Saviour S. Pecorella Counselor to the President United States Conference of Catholic Bishops George Garvey Nicholas J. Fesi, Sr. Frances G. Pecorella Director of Major Gifts, Catholic Relief Services Gleason Family Foundation Joan F. Neal Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Paul Gergen 209 West Fayette St., Baltimore, MD 21201-3443 The Heimerman Family Foundation Frank Fessler, Jr. Adeline H. Poulin Deputy Executive Director, U.S. Operations Archdiocese of Washington Pamela J. Gilardi Msgr. James B. Flynn Suzanne R. Powers IOTA Technology Inc. Mark Palmer Archbishop Harry J. Flynn Scott Kennedy Photo by David Snyder W. K. Kellogg Foundation Harold W. Fox Patricia Ann Raymond Chief Financial Officer Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Daniel Lundy The Laffey-McHugh Foundation James E. Fox Thomas J. Reddin David Piraino Archbishop Roger L. Schwietz, OMI Patrick Mandracchia Tom and Judy Heimerman William P. and Carol Powell Louis J. Franey Alice M. Ridenour Director of Human Resources The Love of Christ Foundation, Inc. Archdiocese of Anchorage Individuals Mr. and Mrs. Donald Heinzen Mr. Richard Pringle Catherine Martineau The McKnight Foundation John T. Franzen Margaret Mary Riley Michael Wiest Bishop Joseph L. Charron, CPPS Dana P. Robinson Mr. Emmet J. Agoglia Mr. and Mrs. Wayne R. Helsel Greg and Michelle Pulles The Murphy Family Foundation Msgr. Robert A. Fuchs Barbara J. Roberts Chief of Staff Photo ©2003 Martin Lueders Diocese of Des Moines Phil and Betty Anthony Catherine Hicks Marty Reichlin National Catholic Community Foundation Antoinette J. Gierlus Helen C. Roddy Boyd E. Sharp, Jr. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio Mr. and Mrs. C. Patrick Baldwin Mitzi and Bernard Hlavac Karen and Patrick Reilly Dennis D. Shoener National Council of Catholic Women Richard W. Goes Donald V. Roemer Diocese of Brooklyn Mr. Kenneth A. Berens Daniel and Yolanda Jane Hoefflin Frank and Joan Ritchey The W. O’Neil Foundation Frank W. Gravante Gregory J. Russo Dennis Tippmann Bishop Curtis J. Guillory, SVD Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. Berryman Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hogan Bernie and Linda Roberts Pascucci Family Foundation Julia M. Gurka Harriet Schneider Jack Yurish Diocese of Beaumont Photo by David Snyder Paul and Colleen Brajcich Mr. and Mrs. William F. Kelly John and Audrey Rogers Mary June Hanlon Emilie B. Severin Peace Times Weekly Inc. Bishop John B. McCormack Robert A. and Bernice Kenkel Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Rohr Eugene and Mary Jane Brisbane Rosenlund Family Foundation Robert T. Hebert Eileen Simpson Diocese of Manchester Pierce Brockman Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kleine Mr. David H. Rolfes Leonard J. Heckwolf, Sr. Ann S. Smith Saint Joseph Health System Foundation Bishop George V. Murry, SJ Mr. and Mrs. John F. Burlingame Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kohout Frederick and Ursula Rost Sexton Foundation Clare Marie Hegele John Nick Spagnolo Diocese of St.Thomas V.I. Marylane T. Burry Mr. and Mrs. Kevin E. Kreuz Runnebohm Construction, Inc. Rosemary P. Hoban Monica Spain Stop World Hunger Bishop William C. Newman Jack and Patricia Bush Michael and Tess Kunesh Dr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Ryan The Strelchun Family Trust Helen R.N. Hogan Anthony J. Sraj Archdiocese of Baltimore Mr. Robert Cahill Stann and Romayne Kurpiel Ervin and Kathy Sauer The Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation Mary M. Holtke Jo Ann Stanley Bishop Michael J. Sheridan Mr. William Clemens John G. and Annice A. Lane Franz P. and Anne Marie Scheuermann 28 Anonymous Donors Fr. John P. Hoogterp Richard W. Stapleton Diocese of Colorado Springs Mrs. Robert Clements Robert H. and Alice C. Leiden Mr. Roy A. Schnebelen Marie T. Houser Margorie M. Stenzel Bishop J. Terry Steib, SVD Mr. and Mrs. D. Alan Collins Johannes H. and Jeanne M. Lemmens John and Barbara Schubert Bequest Donors Eileen Hurst Andrew Stockhausen Diocese of Memphis Shirley R. Lenihan John E. and Margaret J. Seidel Mr. and Mrs. Glenn M. Creamer Lorraine S. Ireland Anna L. Stoklosa Bishop John W. Yanta Mr. Stephen C. Daffron Mr. and Mrs. David Earl Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Shoener Patricia O. Abell Martha L. Kading Ralph L. Strauel Diocese of Amarillo George and Diane Davis Joseph and Kathryn Magee M. J. and Elsie A. Southard Vincent C. Antoine Germaine L. Kalifut Eileen O’Connell Strauss Mr. and Mrs. John deCsepel Daniel L. and Arlene M. McGinnis Eugene Steuerle Dorothy M. Armbruster David F. Kane Maxine Sudhoff Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Dieter Kevin McGuirk and Susan Rogers Mr. and Mrs. John D. Stiefel Mary F. Balleste Andre J. Karam Anne M. Sullivan Thomas E. and Mary Dinndorf Ms. Amy Morgal Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Tippmann Norbert Bashynski Fr. 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