Response to Iraq Crisis

CWS Appeal:

Assistance to War-Affected Iraqis

Eleven-year-old Muhamad is one of hundreds of children roaming the streets of Baghdad or other towns in Iraq.

Photo: Rainer Lang/ACT International

All children are our children. They are the common hope and future of the world. During the last 20 years, the children of Iraq have suffered at the hands of both internal and external forces. The Gulf War in 1991 and more than a decade of sanctions have followed on the heels of a protracted Iraqi war with Iran during the 1980s. Estimates of the number of children who have died run from 500,000 to more than one million. It is a crisis of tragic proportions to which compassionate people of faith in the United States must respond.

CWS getting critical medical supplies to hospitals in Iraq's most violent cities (04/08)

All Our Children Campaign Final Report
Established in January 2003, All Our Children (AOC) was formed to raise funds supporting children's health projects in Iraq.

Learn more

The War on Iraq: Impartial Humanitarian Aid (PDF file, 131 kb)
War on Iraq: What We Can Do for Peace (PDF file, 250 kb)
Costs And Consequences Of War And Sanctions (PDF file, 270 kb)
The War on Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction - The Imperative for Peace (PDF file, 140 kb)