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| One of the first shipments of food aid to Europe, 1946. |
CWS began in response to an emergency.  Americans
from different Christian traditions founded Church World Service to feed post-war Europe in 1946. Today, that union has expanded and continues in southeastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Church World Service
provides sustainable self-help and development assistance, disaster relief and refugee assistance around the  world with support from 35 U.S.-based, Christian denominations and others interested in helping a hurting world. In the past
30 years alone, as neighbors have reached out to neighbors around the world, the percentage of people living in absolute
poverty in the developing world has been cut in half, and the literacy rate has more than doubled, from 35 percent to 77 percent.
Church World Service is part of this worldwide effort with the support and generosity of individuals, families and communities
who wish to make a difference.
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