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U.S. Based Organizations Who Received CRS Funds in 2013
As we do each year, Catholic Relief Services includes our 990 form for 2013 -

Congo Crisis Response Meets iPad Tech
For decades, Katanga Province, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has suffered humanitarian crises—from famine to war. A group of three territories, called the "triangle of death," has been hit especially hard since 2011, forcing thousands of families to flee. Catholic...

Catholic Relief Services Responds to ALL Report
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has received the American Life League (ALL) Investigative Report on Grants by CRS for the fiscal year 2012 (Issued September 2013) and has carried out a thorough investigation of the information provided. Many of the organizations have been cited in previous...

Fighting Modern-Day Slavery in India
In central India, wild elephants come to isolated tribal villages in the early hours of the night. Tearing down the mud walls and thatched roofs, they eat the villagers' grain—and sometimes kill them.
Something else comes at night, too. Human traffickers—criminals who buy...

Catholic Relief Services and Jhpiego's Work in Kenya
Jhpiego and CRS partnered on a project in Nairobi, Kenya, where more than one million children have been orphaned by AIDS-related illnesses and 6.1% of the adult population is living with HIV, along with 200,000 children living with HIV. The CRS and Jhpiego project, called Support and Assistance...

Flora Tristan Relationship
Discontinued in 2009
Flora Tristan is a Peruvian feminist institution created in 1979 as a private non-profit organization. Its mission is to "address the structural causes that restrict women's citizenship and/or affect its practice. Accordingly it proposes to influence the...

Sri Lanka's Abused Maids
"I was ironing and one of the little girl's dresses got burned," says Daya*, a Sri Lankan woman working as a live-in maid for a wealthy family in Kuwait. Daya knew "Madam"—the wife of the house and her employer—would be furious. And she was: Madam took the iron and burned Daya on her wrist and...

Savings Groups Nurture Women's Cacti Co-Op
The Cactucito cooperative, a cactus nursery formed by women 19 years ago, is located in Charcos, a community outside of Matehuala, the fourth-largest city in San Luis Potosí, México. After exploring the town, I noticed something glaring—the lack of men. "The community is practically formed by...


Prayers and General Intercessions for Current Emergencies
Use these prayers and general intercessions in your liturgies and prayer groups to pray on behalf of those threatened by current emergencies around the globe, and to draw us all closer in solidarity with the vulnerable.