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 helps prevent children from being trafficked. Photo by Hilda M. Perez for CRS

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 businesses allows them to contribute significantly to their family’s income. Photo by Joe Lapp for CRS.

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

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 CRS

A social worker holds a card containing information that Iraqi refugees learned through a 12-week training program through the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center in Beirut, Lebanon. Refugees face many challenges in Lebanon. Catholic Relief Services supports our partner agency that provides refugees and foreign workers with financial, social and emotional support.
Photo by David Snyder for CRS.

Ryena Blanco, vice-president for La Olomega community association in El Salvador, waits for customers in the community’s tourism center cafeteria. The association was started by former residents of La Olomega who now live in Houston, Texas, and have sent over $1 million to their hometown to help fund building projects such as the tourism center cafeteria. Catholic Relief Services, in partnership with CARECEN, continues to help residents of La Olomega identify community projects and develop project proposals to submit to the association.
Photo by Sara A. Fajardo/CRS.

Members of a church in Boston proudly wear their Food Fast tee shirts. Food Fast was designed by Catholic Relief Services to link the Catholic tradition of fasting with global hunger. Using materials provided by CRS, participants learn about chronic hunger and its root causes in the developing world, while raising awareness about poverty in their communities in the U.S.
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Photo by David Snyder/CRS.

Catholic Relief Services founded the El Centro de Atencion al Migrante Retornado (Center for Attention to Migrants Return) deportation-processing center in Honduras for migrants who are deported from the U.S. Located at the Toncontin Airport, the center sees upwards of 130 migrants daily. CRS helped start the center nearly ten years ago. In 2008 an estimated 33,000 migrants were serviced by the center.
Photo by Hilda M. Perez for CRS.

Seven-year-old Segundo Arando reads during class at the Casa de COCID in Moyabama, Peru. Supported by Catholic Relief Services and partner organization COCID (the Christian Cooperation for Development Center), the center provides education and skills traning for children who would otherwise be working on the streets.

A teacher at Wayamba Primary School near Tamale, Ghana, teaches a math lesson. Teachers at the school benefit from a Catholic Relief Services program called “Quality Education Improvement”  that provides information on students’ engagement in the classroom and helps develop effective teaching styles. Photo by Lane Hartill/CRS