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Emergency Response News Briefs

November 22, 2006 • Archive

Assessments Continue Following Storms

CWS Disaster Response and Recovery Liaisons (DRRLs) continue work and assessments following last week’s storms that affected southern and Mid-Atlantic states, with particular attention to problems in Mississippi and North Carolina. As noted in a Nov. 17 situation report, CWS expects to respond to these latest disasters through the 2006 Fall Disaster Response Appeal, issued Nov. 13 (#6291 for $50,000).

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Roundup of Current CWS Shipments

  • As part of the fall disaster response in Buffalo, N.Y., CWS has sent $7,680 worth of CWS School and Health Kits to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Buffalo, one of the local service groups responding to the snow storm and floods that affected the Buffalo area. CWS has also made shipments valued at $30,180 of CWS Cleanup Buckets to the City of Buffalo and Health and School Kits to another community organization. And as part of the response in the state of Washington to floods there, CWS has sent 510 CWS Blankets, valued at $2,259, to the Christian Ministry Network in Hamilton, Wash.

  • CWS has sent $49,236 worth of CWS Blankets, Baby Kits and Kids Kits to the Amman, Jordan, office of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), a long-time CWS partner. The shipment is intended to assist Iraqi refugees -- many of them members of Iraqi’s minority Christian community -- and others from throughout the Middle East who have been displaced in recent years and who are now living in Jordan. “This is God’s work,” Wafa Goussous, director of the MECC Jordan office, said Tuesday (Nov. 21) in an interview with CWS staff in New York, discussing the current shipment.

  • CWS has sent $4,519 worth of CWS Blankets to the Salvation Army Warehouse in Kansas City, Mo., as part of a pre-positioning for emergencies in the Missouri-Kansas region.

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ERP Associate Director at Sphere Training

Fidele Lumeya, CWS-ERP Associate Director for International Response, is in Senegal for a Nov. 11-21 training on the Sphere Project, the international set of minimum standards in humanitarian response.

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Thanksgiving Greetings from the ERP staff

The CWS Emergency Response Program staff wishes its denominational supporters, partners and others a peaceful and enjoyable Thanksgiving.

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