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Remember Your Locavores!
Locavore: It's the term coined in the United States to describe folks who strive to eat only locally grown food.
Locavores carefully source their food—both to sustain their local agricultural community and to help cut down on the environmental effects of trucking food long...More
Healthy Bodies, Crops Despite Malawi Drought
There is a song Mary Kamangeni hums as she places bundles of dried stalks on the land where she's planted corn. "My life is like the water in the stream." she sings softly in Chichewa, the language of Malawi. "It flows in one direction."
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Sahel Food Crisis: A Sister's Compassion
The first thing you notice about Sister Theresa is her sense of serenity. She's been living in Gorom Gorom, Burkina Faso, for 9 years now, where the Sisters of the Annunciation of Bobo run a guest
Cool Catholic Kids and Independence
We have a really cool little story coming up about Catholic kids. You won't want to miss it. But first….
A key principle that Catholics carry with them when venturing to help poor and vulnerable people is independence. The Church's teachings on social justice takes care...More
Pumping Up Food Production in Dry Madagascar
In Antanimora, Madagascar, you can tell the time of day by listening.
At 7 a.m., the cicadas screech. At 9, the cows begin to moo. At noon, dogs irritated by the heat bark angrily. By dusk, the wind howls as it whips past cacti and dried soil. In Robin Rasamimanana's fields, dawn breaks...More
East Timor: Planting for Children
Care of the smallest children in East Timor often falls to mothers. They wipe runny noses and labor over cooked-from-scratch meals, and meet the youngest children's needs while attending to demands from older siblings. Fathers also provide some of this direct care, but it's a rare enough...More
Smart Aid: High-Tech Poverty Fighters
"Something exciting's happening at CRS," says Sandra Basgall, who turned 70 a few weeks ago.
Sandra's a Catholic Relief Services staff member who lives in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. To understand her excitement is to grasp the deep commitment she shares with CRS about...More
Good Chemistry: Learning to Be a Servant of God
Amanda Simms found a way to be a servant of God at school.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Baltimore, Maryland, spent a week helping students find ways to live in solidarity with the poorest of the poor around the globe through the Catholic Relief Services Global Solidarity Schools...More
Microfinance in Mexico: Women Bank On It
On a sunny day, 35 women get together on a patio to talk about a subject usually handled by men: money.
"Many municipalities here have microfinance and saving groups. However, most of them follow the norm of only accepting men," says Leonor Zárate, coordinator of the Savings and Internal...More
Iraqi Refugees Get Health Care in Syria
It you weren't looking for it, you'd probably miss the small office tucked away in the labyrinth of streets that make up old Damascus. But the small space provides a much-needed service for thousands of Iraqi refugees who have fled to Syria since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In fact, this...More
