Photo of the Week Archive

Community leader Edwin Roblero Barios prepares rations of oil for a food distribution in the Sanajaba community in the northern highlands of San Marcos, Guatemala. Expectant women and mothers with children under three years of age receive supplemental food rations and attend workshops that promote proper childhood development. Photo by Sara A. Fajardo/CRS

Malawian Farmers Fend Off Drought

Bunson Ngozo of Malawi works on farmland that he has cultivated using irrigation equipment and technical expertise provided by Catholic Relief Services and our partner agency, the Catholic Development Commission. Teaching farmers better growing techniques helps them to improve their crops and make them resistant to drought and other natural emergencies. Photo by David Snyder [...]

Clean Water in the Sudan

The Makuach Water System in Bor County of South Sudan provides the surrounding community and health clinic with access to clean, fresh water. CRS rehabilitated an overhead tank and existing borehole. A solar panel provides electricity to pump water from the borehole to a holding tank, which releases water to local taps twice daily. Photo [...]

New Direction for HIV Care in Zambia

Dr. Kazadi Mwayabo, a coordinator for the CRS-led AIDSRelief program in Zambia, is leading an HIV program that’s transitioning from CRS to a local partner control. According to UNAIDS, 15.2 percent of Zambians between the ages of 15 and 49 are HIV-positive. In the fall of 2009, Dr. Kazadi spoke at the St. Kilian Catholic [...]

Immigrants in Houston Help Their Hometown

Carmen Amaya waits for customers in a tourism center’s cafeteria in the El Salvadoran community of Olomega. The center was built with help of former Olomega residents now residing in Houston, Texas. The group has sent over a quarter million dollars to Olomega to help fund projects as varied as computer labs, a Catholic church, [...]

Farmers Save Crops with Hand-Held Computers

Today the Great Lakes Cassava Initiative, led by Catholic Relief Services and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is helping farmers in Kenya and five other countries in Africa’s Great Lakes grow disease resistant cassava plants and monitor their crops with mini, hand-held computers designed by Microsoft. Photo by Debbie DeVoe/CRS

Help for Deportees

Deported migrants arrive after a chartered flight from Houston, Texas, and proceed to El Centro de Atención al Migrante Retornado (Attention Center for the Returned Immigrant) located in the Toncontin Airport in Honduras. Catholic Relief Services initiated and funded the deportation processing center eight years ago to assist migrants upon their return. The center also [...]

Hand Stitched

This detail of a table cover is an example of hand-decorating in the traditional churma style. With help from Catholic Relief Services, Afghan refugee women in Pakistan learn to make elaborate stitching. They also take part in a small business development program in the city of Quetta in southwestern Pakistan. The income earned from these [...]

Healing the Wounds of War

In Egypt, a peace camp brings Iraqi, Sudanese, Egyptian and other children together for summer fun. The Peace Camp is located in the city of Alexandria. Catholic Relief Services supports the camp by providing monitoring and evaluation personnel. The camp helps heal the wounds of war. Photo by Khalil Ansara for CRS

New Home After Tsunami

A mother and her infant daughter are one of the families in the village of Seunebok Tuengoh, Indonesia whose home was rebuilt with help from Catholic Relief Services after the tsunami of December 26, 2004. Over the past five years, CRS has built thousands of new, sturdier homes in Indonesia. Photo by Sean Sprague for [...]