Letters of Support

Letters from African church and government leaders...

Church World Service’s School Safe Zone program has mobilized and brought together people in ways we’ve never seen before…

The SSZ National Task force includes leaders from the Protestant, Catholic, African Independent, Hindu, and Muslim faiths, as well as stakeholders from UN agencies, Kenyan Ministry of Education, National Teachers’ Associations and Kenyan Corporations.

Dr. Agnes Abuom
School Safe Zones National Task Force Coordinator

CWS has played a crucial role in strengthening the West Africa sub-region especially in the area of peace building, and education and advocacy.

FECCIWA has made enormous gains in building not only a strong fellowship of Christian Councils and Church in W.A., but also a constituency which is able to engage in relevant discourse... This has largely been possible because of its collaborators, including Church World Service as an avid partner…

CWS shares and supports our vision.

Baffour D. Amoa
Secretary General
Fellowship of Christian Councils in West Africa

Photo: Erol Kekic/CWS

Church World Service has brought enthusiasm, expertise, and innovation to our collaborations…

Melissa Brough
Program Officer
Film Aid International

A distribution of CWS Blankets in Liberia.

Church World Service has been an inspiration to the efforts to bring relief to the affected population in war-torn Liberia and a platform from where the worth of our work can be felt by partners and other people.

Rev. Brown
Concerned Christian Community (CCC), Liberia

Photo: Carol Fouke-Mpoyo/CWS

Will the Church gather up only the crushed or prevent the wheel from crushing the poor and the marginal...Working together we lift up the voice for economic policies that promote an economy for life versus economies for profit alone… Taken together, what seems like a mustard seed may become giant oak...

Our efforts gain strength through the accompaniment of Church World Service.

Rev. Dr. H. Mvume Dandala
General Secretary
All Africa Conference of Churches

The conflicts and wars, hunger, disease and poverty make Africa a troubled continent, but it is not destroyed... Church World Service in partnership with Churches and Councils of Churches in Africa is leading the way towards Africa's recovery through the "Africa Initiative" with a major focus on conflict resolution and peace building, disease prevention and control, care for children, food security and capacity building...

Africa cannot and must not be the same troubled continent. All shoulders to the wheel (CWS, Churches and Councils of Churches) for this to be real.

Alimamy P. Koroma
General Secretary, Council of Churches in Sierra Leone

On behalf of the President, Officers and Members of the Liberian Council of Churches, and the entire Christian Community in Liberia, I wish to congratulate CWS on the official launching of CWS Africa Initiative. This is a dream and vision which have come of age...

We in Liberia consider this Initiative very important, because it has come at the most critical time in the history of the peoples in the Mano River Basin…

We pray that CWS Africa Initiative will serve as the locomotive to advocate for Peace, Conflict Resolution, and the Promotion of Good Governance and Good Neighborliness in the Region.

Please take urgently within this Initiative the establishment of an Eminent Persons Task Force to be active in the Sub-Region for the prevention of conflicts.

We pledge to work fully within this Initiative for the betterment of our people.

Benjamin Dorme Lartey
General Secretary, Liberian Council of Churches

Church World Service partnerships on water provision stress both human development and community building in an effort to encourage people's ownership of their own water resources, as well as the inclusion of their own voices in public policy dialogues.

Paul Maina
Senior Consultant
Center for Development Services, Kenya

The Africa Initiative is a fresh start in retracing our culture and bringing dignity to the continent, free of the burden of debt and having a fuller understanding and control of our own destiny in the resources that we have.

We in Southern Africa totally support the renaissance and feel now is the time to build a new generation.

David J. Modiega
General Secretary, Botswana Council of Churches
Former Chairperson, Fellowship of Christian Councils In Southern Africa

We believe that the CWS Africa Initiative will help the poor, marginalized and disadvantaged with another chance to fight for poverty eradication, justice and gender equity.

It is our hope that with unity our goal towards the endeavor will be realized.

We once again thank you for your efforts and commitments in extending your support to the needy people.

Rev. Dr. Leonard Mtaita
General Secretary, Christian Council of Tanzania

I would like to commend you, your staff, and the members of Church World Service’s Board of Directors for creating the Africa Initiative and for including many African church leaders and partners in the planning, design, and implementing of social and economic development programs that will help lift its people out of the depths of poverty and economic stagnation.

…I enthusiastically endorse the Church World Service Africa Initiative.

Hon. Prof. George Saitoti, EGH. MP.
Minister for Education, Science and Technology
Government of Kenya

Until our cries for peace are heard and answered, our cries for food will never end.

We are grateful for the partnership of Church World Service in prayer, encouragement and support for the peoples of Southern and marginalized areas who have suffered too long and who now put their hopes in peace that will prevail at community, regional, and national levels.

In His Service,

Rev. Dr. Haruun L. Ruun
Executive Secretary
New Sudan Council of Churches