CROP Hunger Walk Photos

Caption: In communities across the U.S. friends and neighbors are putting their caring into action through the CROP Hunger Walk.

Credit: Beryl Goldberg

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Caption: Neighbors walking in CROP Hunger Walks help meet human needs and nurture self-reliance with neighbors near and far.

Credit: David Bower/CWS

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Caption: Good friends make good CROP Walkers.

Credit: Rene Puzach

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Caption: CROP Hunger Walks are multi-generational events.

Credit: Beryl Goldberg

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Caption: Youth across the U.S. are joining in CROP Hunger Walks this year.

Credit: Cindy Finder-Savers

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Caption: Across the U.S., CROP Walks are drawing enthusiastic crowds.

Credit: Julie Quello

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Programmatic photos

Caption: Getting water is a major task each day for the people of Darfur, as here outside Zalingei. 

Credit: Paul Jeffrey/ACT-Caritas 

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Caption: A family in Kompong Thom province, Cambodia, where CWS works with villagers, teaching new techniques for well and culvert construction and for raising vegetables, fish, livestock, and rice. A generation after the horrors of the Pol Pot regime, these resilient and resourceful Cambodians are reclaiming their country and their future.

Credit: © Annie Griffiths Belt for CWS

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Caption: As flood waters of the Brahmaputra River rise higher each year, residents of the northeastern Indian state of Assam have been moving tons of earth to build raised platforms on which they and their families can survive during flooding.

Credit: Paul Jeffrey/ACT-CWS

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Caption: A survivor of the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, fetching water back home in her village of Khanian, where she and her neighbors still face innumerable challenges.

Credit: Paul Jeffrey/Action by Churches Together

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Caption: Trainees at the CWS-supported Bissian Construction Trade Training Center, just outside of Balakot City, Pakistan, have honed their skills construction skills and built this first home.  The construction employs a simple technology of pressed straw and plaster as a basic building material.  Such homes are quake resistant, environmentally friendly, and well-insulated against the harsh mountain weather.  The CWS program is in conjunction with DOSTI, a local Pakistani partner.

Credit: Chris Herlinger/CWS

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Caption: "Getting down to business."  Four "graduates" of the Giving Hope program in Gitarama, Rwanda, have opened a cooperative tailoring shop.  One-fourth of their profits are invested in their business fund.  The balance is divided four ways among the partners. 

Credit: Linda Robbins/CWS 2006

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