Generally distributed every two weeks, CWS/ERO Program Briefs provide updates and information on current CWS Emergency Response programs and activities. Domestic Response Updates are quarterly reports on disaster response activities in the United States.
PROGRAM BRIEFS:
July 1, 1999: CWS Providing Blankets to South Dakota Indian Reservation; Disaster Management Courses Available at UW-Madison; Follow-up Capacity Building Workshops Completed; CWS Executive Reports on Situation in Macedonia
June 17, 1999: Sara Coppler Leaves for New Position at Habitat; CWS Food Monitor in North Korea Named; CWS-Pakistan Continues to Respond to Cyclone
June 3, 1999: Additional CWS/ERO Capacity Building Trainings Scheduled; Hurricane Mitch Video and Donations Brochure Now Available; ERO Committee Meets, Chairman Hails Collegiality
May 13, 1999: CWS Seeking Replenishment of Gifts of the Heart Kits; First CWS Security Training Held in Pakistan; California Group Completes Work, Refunds $15,000 Surplus
April 16, 1999: Sixty-four Teams Slated for Hurricane Mitch Reconstruction Work; CWS Coordinating Shipments to War-Torn Sierra Leone; Busy Atlantic-Caribbean Hurricane Season Foreseen
April 1, 1999: DNN Receives Web Site Resource Award; New York's Riverside Church Raises Money for Colombia Appeal; Syracuse CROP Office Collecting Health Kits for Balkans Relief
March 18, 1999: NVOAD Approves Testing of New Domestic Recovery Protocols; CWS to Participate in North Korea Potato Farming Initiative; Afghanistan Earthquake Survivors Thank CWS for Aid; CWS Hurricane Mitch Video Being Produced
March 4, 1999: Don Tatlock Named to Honduras-Based Position; CWS Work Teams in Honduras Scheduled Through November; Annual Consultants' Training Scheduled for Oct. 1-6; Survey Details Damage, Human Cost to Sierra Leone Churches; CWS/ACT Capacity Building Training Under Way in Jordan
Feb. 18, 1999: Glenn Rogers named Mitch Work Team Coordinator; ACT Members Explore Coordinated Response in Colombia; CWS/ERO Developing Y2K Brochure; CWS/ERO Web Site Contains New Features; Seed Money Sent to Jackson, TN, Interfaith; West Virginia Medical Team in Dominican Republic
Feb. 4, 1999: Cumberland Presbyterian Church Responds in Colombia; Toll-free Number for Hurricane Mitch Coordination Work; IOCC Assists CWS Efforts in Central America; Seventy Participate in CWS Training Event in Texas; CWS Providing Blankets in Arkansas; Sierra Leone Situation Uncertain, Violent
DOMESTIC RESPONSE UPDATES:
Summer 1999: Reports on interfaith activities in Alabama, Mississippi, California, Kansas, New York and, Tennessee.