OUR PROGRAM:
- Mission
- Methods
- Global Response
- U.S. Response
- Volunteer Program
- 5-Year Strategic Plan
- How You Can Support Us

LEARN ABOUT:

- Our Gifts of the Heart Program
- Our Blankets Program

    Following Hurricane Marilyn on Virgin Islands in 1995, the Federal Emergency Management Agency coordinated donations from agencies, including churches. (FEMA Photo by John Hopkins.)  

Material Resources

Church World Service ships material aid by sea or air almost anywhere in the world subject to U.S. Government and host government regulations.   All materials it ships enter countries duty-free and are distributed through consignees with storage and distribution capacity.  The CWS material resources program:

· Supports ongoing programs and projects of CWS, its colleague agencies, and other related organizations and entities

· Responds to disasters and emergencies overseas and in the United States

· Maintains a limited inventory of selected material resources necessary and useful for disaster and emergency situations

· Assists CWS member denominations and related agencies in procuring and shipping material aid for their programs and projects overseas

· Assists overseas programs and projects by providing information and help in appropriate technology and other specialized fields

In 1993 Midwest flooding, churches played an important role in providing relief supplies. (FEMA Photo by Andrea Booher.)

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