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

An eager student smiles during his lunch break at the Kirumbi Primary School in Kenya. School dropout rates are highest among children whose parents are HIV positive or have died of AIDS. Catholic Relief Services supports this school and others like it through the Archdiocese of Mombasa, which provides 150 of the school’s orphans and vulnerable children with uniforms, counseling, books and medical care. Photo by David Snyder for CRS.

A student runs through a rice paddy outside of the Sangoil School in Bangladesh. Catholic Relief Services works through our local partner, Caritas Bangladesh,to advance  education in Bangladesh by improving  teachers skills, strengthening relationships with the community and increasing children’s access to education. Photo by David Snyder for CRS.