Change the equation!

We live in a world where there is enough for all, yet hunger persists. After 66 years of working to overcome hunger and poverty, Church World Service understands well the daunting challenge of our mission, but we remain hopeful – inspired both by our faith and by the astonishing changes that are happening in communities around the world through their own efforts and a little support from us. We know that it is possible to change the equation of hunger. We see it happening every day. This annual report is but a brief glimpse of the hope-filled stories you make possible. ‘There’s‘There’s alwaysalways hope’hope’ By Sean Hawkey, documentary photographer Across nations, cultures, languages and faith traditions, the resilience, creativity and unflagging aspiration of “Petrona wasn’t feeling well one morning and I gave her a lift from Nebaj to the villages. She had a very young child, and hungry people for a better life inspire me every day. when I visited again about seven months later, she had another younger one, so I guess that’s why she was feeling sick. She was full of innocent fun as you can see in the picture. She met her husband when she was a waitress in an indigenous rural People like young Tun Tun Oo, who lost most of his restaurant.restaurant. AA youngyoung manman hadhad hishis eyeeye onon herher andand camecame intointo thethe restaurantrestaurant severalseveral timestimes everyevery dayday toto seesee herher and,and, eventually,eventually, family in Cyclone Nargis. Alone after such traumatic shyly proposed. The families agreed and they married in a simple indigenous evangelical ceremony. losses, he is building a new life step-by-step with the support of CWS. Or Chanda Timsina, whose family was “Petrona was a picture of human kindness – that comes across in this picture of her in a greenhouse. I think she’s about three forced to flee their home in Bhutan and live as refugees months pregnant in this picture, and I think you can see that, too – there’s a glow of hope. in neighboring Nepal before being resettled to the United Every place we visited, States with the help of CWS. Starting from scratch. “Nebaj, Guatemala, has suffered terribly. Military repression, massacres of indigenous people. Many ran away to escape, Changing the equation – they know what that means. some came back. There is some of the worst poverty in the Americas there, and I often got the sense that people in the They’ve done it. We are honored to accompany such villages were still living the horrors they’d suffered before. But there’s always hope, and it’s shining through in this picture I saw the powerful courageous people. of Petrona.

We were also honored this year to be profiled by the “And CIEDEG, the CWS partner working there, does a culturally and politically sensitive job that goes well beyond helping impact CWS-supported award-winning PBS series Visionaries. They felt the people grow food. It is about rebuilding crushed people and crushed communities, restoring hope. CWS approach to its mission was extraordinary. I hope projects have had on you will make sure to watch their depiction of our work. “It was a privilege to be there for CWS.” We're working to change the equation because we do not individual communities believe hunger is inevitable. There is enough for all. Thank you for sharing and supporting that vision. and families. God bless you, Jody Santos PBS Visionaries Producer/Director CHURCH WORLD SERVICE Rev. John L. McCullough 2012 ANNUAL REPORT President and CEO

Church World Service works with partners to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice around the world.

2012 CWS Bishop William Persell Erol Kekic, Director of Immigration Illinois - Elmhurst, IL Board of Directors Dr. Connie Speights Richardson & Refugee Program Indiana/Kentucky - Indianapolis, IN Ms. Lisa Rothenberger Sarah Krause, Deputy for Programs Iowa - Des Moines, IA Building a world where there is enough for all starts with you! Rev. Dr. Earl D. Trent Jr., Chair Building a world where there is enough for all starts with you! Ms. Kathryn Ewers Roy Tara Pinkham, Assoc. Director Louisiana/Texas - Austin, TX for Immigration Mr. Roy Winter, 1st Vice Chair Ms. Susan M. Sanders Michigan - Lansing, MI Andrew Fuys, Assoc. Director Rev. Amy Gopp, 2nd Vice Chair Dr. Lucinda Post Senning Minn-Kota - Falcon Heights, MN for International Programs Mr. Roland Fernandes, Treasurer Rev. Dr. Vernon Shannon New England - Ludlow, MA Sandra Vines, Assoc. Director Join a CROP Hunger Walk Take up a Blankets+ offering Provide CWS Kits Connect with us Rev. Sunitha Mortha, Secretary Ms. Julia A. Thorne, Esq. New Jersey/New York Metro Area - for Post-Arrival & Integration You can join other Church World Service supporters and Rt. Rev. Johncy Itty, Mr. Constantine M. Triantafilou Services Monroe, NJ This past year, caring people in some 2,000 The CWS Blankets+ Program gives your group the CWS Kits are small packages of supplies assembled by Immediate Past Chair Dr. Betty Voskuil Jen Smyers, Associate for New York Upstate - North Syracuse, NY U.S. communities joined together in 1,434 CROP Hunger opportunity to respond to disasters and to assist volunteers for neighbors in need at home and around staff from around the globe on Facebook, Twitter, Bishop John F. White Immigration & Refugee Policy Ohio - Columbus, OH Mr. James R. Ackley Walks and other events to support the work of CWS. communities with the tools they need to build the world. In the last fiscal year, CWS provided some YouTube and other social media. There you can get Ms. Karyn Wingard-Manuel CWS Refugee Resettlement Offices Pacific Northwest - Seattle, WA Rev. Aundreia Alexander news on vital CWS programs and become part of a Durham, NC Rocky Mountain - Denver, CO They raised some $13.4 million to help end hunger sustainable lives. Blankets+ provides not only 186,557 Kits – School Kits, Hygiene Kits, Baby Care H.E. Archbishop Vicken Aykazian CWS Administrative Staff Greensboro, NC Southeast - Durham, NC around the world. One quarter of the funds raised are blankets, tents, bedding, food, medicine and other Kits and Emergency Cleanup Buckets. Kits make a community of people working to make hunger and Rev. Dr. Phillip Bakelaar Harrisonburg, VA Rev. John L. McCullough, Wisconsin - Madison, WI poverty a thing of the past. 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Moldova CWS helped Marcos and his brother Kosta Serbia Eastern Europe experienced Japan Rebuilding communities California Rosie, a Lai such gripping cold in 2012 that more have more food to eat for the Chin refugee from Myanmar long-term. Their family following Japan’s devastating than 800 people lost their lives. 2011 earthquake and tsunami will (Burma), and her husband Responding with CWS Blankets and received a grant that helped were resettled to Sacramento Kentucky When violent them buy chickens, which their take years. CWS is up for the other emergency aid, CWS continues to challenge. You’re helping us CROP Hunger Walk from Malaysia. Her daughter storms ravaged much of the work with the region’s most vulnerable dad has turned into their What the L.A. Times calls the was born shortly thereafter. U.S., we provided CWS community’s leading poultry support communities like people, supporting children’s programs, Onagawa, where we’ve worked “grandaddy of all walks” is CWS resettled more than Blankets, Kits and Emergency adult literacy classes and vocational supply despite debilitating 5,300 refugees to the U.S. with local groups to create a alive and well in more than Cleanup Buckets. But that North Carolina CWS trainings to help them build better economic depression. last year and continues to be temporary shopping center where 2,000 U.S. communities. These wasn’t all. CWS emergency initiated citizenship education lives for themselves. a leading refugee assistance a florist, a beauty salon, an community-led events provide response specialists helped and naturalization legal services, agency. electrical shop, a grocery shop funds to help CWS fight hunger communities plan, fund and which have benefitted more in each Walk community and manage their own recovery, and others offer employment, than 1,500 refugees and other provide for local residents’ daily around the world. focusing on those most lawful permanent residents. vulnerable and least likely Pakistan Sameena, an Afghan refugee, has needs, and help make life seem a to receive other help. learned embroidery and beadwork through a little more normal. Syria Civil war has forced more three-month CWS-Pakistan/Afghanistan skills Haiti The 2010 earthquake than 2.5 million people from their development course. Her skills helped her to continues to impact daily life, and homes and into neighboring start her own business, allowing her to pay for CWS is there providing support for Jordan. You are helping meet their her husband’s addiction treatment and to people with disabilities, helping needs as CWS provides shelter provide therapy for her disabled daughter. Haitians to grow healthy food in and emergency assistance. Guatemala Though marrying and having farming cooperatives, and helping Vietnam Nguyen Thi Tan is one of the rural villagers who children by age 20 is the norm for indigenous to protect and empower children has learned innovative techniques that fight pollution, thanks women like Maricela, her life took a different and living on the street or as “restaveks” to a CWS program. Now, instead of letting household empowering turn. CWS training helped Maricela Burkina Faso Drought in Africa’s Sahel (domestic laborers). means nearly 16 million people don’t have wastewater drain into the pond where her family gets water, learn organic farming, business and leadership that wastewater is reused for crops. Once black with pollution, skills. Now able to provide for herself and her enough food to eat. The CWS response East Africa CWS continues to be helps communities have an emergency “the color of the water looks much healthier,” Nguyen says of grandmother, she has become a community a major player in resettling refugees the pond, “and there is more algae for the fish to eat.” leader in the process. supply of food for today’s needs and the around the world. In Nairobi, Kenya, a tools to handle future crises, such as new Resettlement Support Center will Nicaragua CWS drought-resistant varieties of crops and help CWS usher refugees through the prevents violence against resilient water supplies. process and provide those resettling to Cambodia While 1 in 6 people worldwide don’t have youth who work in markets the U.S. with cultural orientation to life safe drinking water, in Cambodia those odds are getting in Managua by training the in their new country. better thanks to CWS work. Providing the most children and involving appropriate, sustainable solutions helps us to win the community members in battle against waterborne diseases that cause diarrhea, their protection, while the leading cause of death for children under 5. assisting sexual abuse survivors with shelter, psychosocial support, Kenya Jennifer Sindiri joined a literacy health care and vocational class sponsored by CWS. Not only did the training. Rwanda At 12-year-old mother of four learn to read and write, she Clementine Twagirimana’s age, her developed business skills that helped her Indonesia Aras Mendrofa, of Nias, Indonesia, brother Jean was caring for his find a way to feed her family, sustainably. “I used to be listless and often fell sick. Today, much-younger sisters and helping want to thank CWS... for changing the lives however, after taking Vitalita™ multivitamin and others also orphaned by AIDS. of communities through this program and mineral supplements for several months through Because of the CWS Giving Hope empowering me to be where I am,” she says. a CWS program, the 11-month-old is active, program, Jean is now training to has a good appetite and is at his ideal weight be a mechanic, and Clementine of 21 pounds. (shown here with a Giving Hope mentor) and her sister go to school together.

The Gran Chaco Dredging and engineering work had damaged fisheries in the Pilcomayo River so badly that 79 percent of families who depend on the river for food were going without eating during an entire day at least once a week. Today, indigenous communities report growth in the river’s food supply thanks to CWS assistance in advocacy and training.

CWS Church World Service is a cooperative ministry of 37 Christian denominations and communions working to eradicate hunger and poverty — providing sustainable development, disaster relief and refugee assistance around the world.

Participating Denominations and Communions African Methodist Episcopal Church African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church American Baptist Churches USA Apostolic Catholic Church Armenian Church of America (including Diocese of California) Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Church of the Brethren Community of Christ The Coptic Orthodox Church in North America The Episcopal Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Friends United Meeting Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Hungarian Reformed Church in America Net Change in Net Assets ($2,010,830) International Council of Community Churches Korean Presbyterian Church in America Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Mar Thoma Church indicates location of representative 2012 programs Net Assets at July 1, 2011 $11,365,216 Moravian Church in America National Baptist Convention of America National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Net Assets at June 30, 2012 $9,354,386 National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Orthodox Church in America Patriarchal Parishes of the in the U.S.A. Photo credits: California, CWS; North Carolina, CWS; Serbia, Paul Jeffrey/ACT Alliance; Moldova, Tom Hampson/CWS; Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Polish National Catholic Church of America Presbyterian Church (USA) Pakistan, CWS; Japan, Paul Jeffrey/ACT Alliance; Vietnam, CWS; Cambodia, Jacqueline Collis; Indonesia, CWS; Kenya, CWS; Subject to Audit Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. Reformed Church in America Serbian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada East Africa, CWS; Burkina Faso, Maurice Bloem/CWS; Rwanda, ©Annie Griffiths for CWS; The Gran Chaco, Paul Jeffrey/ACT Alliance; Haiti, Paul Jeffrey/ACT Alliance; Guatemala, Sean Hawkey/CWS The Swedenborgian Church Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America The Church World Service is tax exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; contributions are tax deductible. The CWS financial records are audited by independent auditors in accordance with guidelines established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The auditor’s report and/or the CWS 990 is available upon request. cwsglobal.org