CWS América Latina y el Caribe

CWS América Latina y el Caribe is a non-governmental organisation based in Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina working on poverty & hunger, humanitarian aid & disaster relief, refugees & migration +6 more.

CWS América Latina y el Caribe is the regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean of Church World Service, a humanitarian and development organisation founded in 1946 by Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican churches in the United States. The regional office oversees programmes and partner relationships in Haiti, the Gran Chaco region, Central America and Mexico, and runs a regional advocacy initiative on the rights and social inclusion of children with relatives deprived of liberty. Its work covers food security, emergency response and disaster recovery, housing, water and sanitation, microenterprise and credit, psychosocial support, and advocacy for the rights of migrants, displaced people and refugees. Work is carried out with local partners, many of them community and faith-based organisations, and the programmes are ecumenical, without religious proselytising. CWS states that it works in more than 30 countries, including the United States.