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Making refugees feel welcome: Start with a smile

The importance of social networks for refugees’ successful integration was emphasized repeatedly during CWS’s annual national refugee resettlement conference, held May 8-10 in New York. "We want to celebrate all the benefits integration brings both to refugees and receiving communities," noted CWS/IRP Director Erol Kekic.

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CWS emergency appeal: Sahel food crisis

Unusually low rainfall has devastated food crops across the Sahel, a vast African region south of the Sahara desert, and an estimated 15.5 million people are now affected by food insecurity. CWS is supporting emergency assistance and other efforts to help communities supply their own food.

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Photo: Jackie Sahd, CWS-Lancaster

25 years of resettlement success stories

Sheila McGeehan doesn’t take the credit, but she’s introduced refugees from all around the world to Lancaster, Pa. And those newcomers have transformed her hometown into “a very cosmopolitan” community.

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