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Help CRS Respond to Emergencies
With more than 75 years experience delivering humanitarian assistance throughout the world, CRS has a strong background in emergency preparedness and response. We work directly with affected communities and local partners to help communities build back better.
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Protecting Niger From Malaria
Find out how we’ve already begun fighting malaria in Niger.More
Experience, Expertise and Emergency Response: Help and Hope for People in Crisis
Catholic Relief Services is currently responding to emergencies in more than 18 countries on four continents. Our most recent responses are to Typhoon Koppu in the Philippines, to Hurricane Patricia in...More
Catholic Relief Services and the National Council of Catholic Women
A Partnership of Support
The National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW) Since 1946, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and NCCW have worked together to support programs that empower women to improve their health, income and education in order to provide a better life for their families and...More
Relief Before Disaster: Prepared for the Worst
To live in rural southern Bangladesh is to play an endless game of Chutes and Ladders. Long days of hard work - tending rice fields, selling eggs, buying goats - of scrimping and saving, of buying medicines and paying school fees, let you climb the ladder rung by rung.
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Break the Cycle of Poverty
Today is a good day to make the world a better place for our brothers and sisters in need.More
How CRS is Celebrating International Cofffee Day
We're deepening our commitment to serving smallholder farm families and workers in the Coffeelands.More
Helping Farmers Adapt to Climate Change in Niger
In Niger, Chaibou Alzouma now sees the truth in the timeless biblical lesson of Galatians 6:7: You reap what you sow.
That was not always the case for this 57-year-old farmer who spends most days on his feet, working long hours under the scorching sun of West Africa. No matter how hard...More
Make Your Coffee Habit Count
Purchase coffee, chocolate and snacks through Catholic Relief Services partner Equal Exchange and make a difference in the lives of farmers.More