A set of photos and presentation materials for potential use Nov. 3

2. Hong Kong Response
1964
India
1965
Ontario Clothing Depot opens
1966
CRWRC-US moves to current location in
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1967

3. Hurricane Camille hit the Gulf Coast on
August 17, 1969, as a Category 5 storm
killing more than 250 people. CRWRC
responded to Camille in 1969.
CRWRC Canada incorporated;
Appalachia, Mexico, Nigeria
1969

4. 1970’s
disaster response
1970 – 1972 Philippines, Jordan,
Bangladesh,Nicaragua
Xenia, Ohio; Honduras, Niger
1974

5. US inner-city ministries start; Guatemala,
El Salvador
1976

6. World Hunger Campaign begins
1978
Sierra Leone, Lebanon
1979

7. 1980’s
CRWRC Canada office opens; Italy,
Algeria, Cambodia
1981
Liberia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica,
Poland
1982

8. Canadian Foodgrains Bank begins; East
Africa, Ecuador, Kenya, Uganda
1983
Mali, Ghana, Chad, Sudan, Brazil, Turkey,
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Belize, Mozambique
1984
Guinea, Zimbabwe
1986
Panama
1987
Malawi, Tanzania
1989

9. 1990’s
Free A Family begins;
Niger 1991
Horn of Africa; 37 Deacons Conferences
across North America
1992

10. Free To Serve; Romania, Croatia, Russia,
Zaire, Aridlands
1993
AIDS response begins; Partners for
Christian Development begins; Rwanda,
Burma, Thailand
1994
Service Link Canada begins; Peter Fish
banks begin
1995
Joseph Fund begins; Indochina, Cuba,
Burundi
1996

11. 2000
Diaconal Ministries Canada begins; 9/11
response
2001
Bev Abma (l), CRWRC-DRS Director, at
the World Trade Center, NYC, September
2001

12. South Africa
2002
Afghanistan
2003
Asia tsunami
2004
Hurricane Katrina
2005
Embrace AIDS Campaign begins
2007

13. Communities First Association begins
2009
Joined Facebook
June 12, 2009

14. Current & Recent Int'l Disaster Response Projects - 1
West Africa Drought Response Niger Apr 2012 - Sep 2012
Philippines - Typhoon Response Philippines Dec 2011 - Apr 2012
Eastern Sumba Famine Response Indonesia Dec 2011 - May 2012
East Africa Drought Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia Jul 2011 - present
Earthquake/Tsunami Japan Apr 2011 - Jun 2012
Flooding Relief Pakistan Jul 2010 - Jul 2012
Sindh Floods Oct 2011 - Apr 2012

15. Current & Recent Int'l Disaster Response Projects - 2
Earthquake Haiti Jan 2010 - Jun 2012
Darfur Famine Relief Sudan Aug 2004 - Feb 2012
Post-Conflict Recovery South Sudan Sep 2010 - Aug 2012
Restoring Agriculture Liberia Jul 2008 - Sep 2011
Flooding Relief Sri Lanka Jul 2010 - Jul 2011
Food Security in
Diankabou and Madougou Mali Jul 2008 - Jul 2011
Flood Relief in Mutarara Mozambique Apr 2008, - Jul 2011

16. Current & Recent Int'l Disaster Response Projects - 3
Cyclone Sidr Bangladesh Nov 2007 - Jun 2010
Tsunami Relief Indonesia Dec 2004 - May 2010
Families Affected by Conflict Chad Jun 2007 - Jun 2009
Refugees in Jordan & Syria Iraq Jan 2008 - Jun 2009
Teso Flood Relief Uganda Feb 2008 - Jan 2009
Hurricane Relief Haiti Sep - Dec 2008
Tsunami Relief Sri Lanka Dec 2004 - Aug 2008
Flooding Relief Ecuador Apr - May 2008
Food Aid in Mount Elgon Kenya Apr 2007 - Mar 2008
Hurricane Felix Relief Nicaragua Sep - Dec 2007

17. The Good Samaritan Centre in Miami helped
over 25,000 Cuban refugees in the early
1960s

18. Cuban refugees arriving in Miami

19. 1967 Peter Feddema, CRWRC’s first
agriculturalist, in Korea.

20. 1972 Fred immunizes a pig in a
Philippine pig distribution project

21. 1973 Jennie Schuld with sewing group,
Pulupandan CRC, Philippines

22. 1976 Guatemala earthquake.

23. 1976 Guatemala earthquake destruction.

24. Children in Guatemala view earthquake
destruction.

25. 1980 typical house in Agua Caliente, Honduras

26. Honduras. New home in Agua Caliente after
Hurricane Fifi in 1974. working with CEDEN.

27. 1980. Luu family Abbotsford Vietnamese
refugees

28. 2010. Luu family recently

29. 1982. Sierra Leone relief work

30. 1982. Edmonton Sierra Leone tour group
Trudy & Harry Spaling, Jennie & Clarence
Visser, Dirk & Joan Booi, and Rev. Louis
Tamminga

31. 1982. Travel in Sierra Leone was not easy

32. Jennie Visser with Sierra Leone baby

33. Ron and Tina Prins of Lacombe in Sierra
Leone
.

34. 1985. Haiti – pig barns being built –
Clarence Visser
.

35. 1985 Ron and Ray Prins working on water
project in Sierra Leone

36. Jennie and Clarence Visser today.
.

37. 1994. Kenya. Simon Ngeru and Teresia
Waweru help in growing and creating
businesses.

38. Kenya with small business development led by
Simon Ngeru.

39. Cambodia. English language facilitation

40. Roy Berkenbosch of the King’s University
College works with students to achieve
Micah Challenge goals.

41. Members of the Micah Action Club at
King’s University want to kick some butt to
achieve the Millennium Development
goals.

42. The West African Drought affects many
people.

43. Servicelink International

44. 2011. Senegal. Distribution of efficient wood
stoves

45. 2007. Staff of Park Lighting. This business
donated one whole day’s gross revenue to
Embrace AIDS work.

46. 2007. Betty Johannesen of Park Lighting
presents donation for Embrace AIDS
program.

47. 2011. Elly Dalmaijer of St. Albert in Ethiopia

48. 2011. George Fernhout in Pakistan.

49. 2011. Workers in Pakistan doing
reconstruction.

50. 2010 Haiti Capitol destruction
.

51. Jack Dalmaijer in Eithiopa
.

52. Kenya. Borehole well brings rejoicing
.

53. Kenya waterpan – man-made pond for
watering livestock.
.

54. Kenya. Maternal and child health
.

55. Starting a water hole in Niger

56. Philippine planning group

57. A housing development near Butuan
In the Philippines – a CRWRC Project

58. King’s Intern Sarah Choi on Assignment
with CRWRC in Bangladesh

59. John Orkar’s lectures on African history
at King’s

60. Jonathan de Koning, as a King’s student
On internship in Haiti with CRWRC

61. These women are part of a literacy group in
the slums of Dhaka Bangladesh. CRWRC
believes that literacy is key to the
empowerment of women, which in turn is key
to thriving community.

62. These emerald rice fields sustain a dense
population in Bangladesh thanks to a rice
intensification program begun by CRWRC

63. This cooperative group now enjoys food
security thanks to a rice husking project
facilitated by PARI, CRWRC’s partner in
Jamalpur district of Bangladesh

64. A farmer in rural Bangladesh stands proud in
front of his cane crop

65. A member of a sewing cooperative sponsored
by CRWRC

66. This cobbler has started his own business
taken from the cooperative savings and credit
fund, a key component to CRWRC’s strategy to
work with the urban poor in Dhaka Bangladesh.

67. Illiterate only a few years ago, this woman now
chairs a regional community development
cooperative in Bangladesh

68. This women’s group has received training from
CRWRC that helped them establish a small
garment industry in slums of Dhaka
Bangladesh.

69. A community trainer leads a nutrition workshop
in Dhaka Bangladesh

70. Community Development wrokshop I Shillong,
India, hosted by CRWRC partner, NEICORD

71. Geoff Brouwer on assignment in Tanzania

72. Roy Berkenbosch and Jim Visser meeting with
staff of Sathi, one of CRWRC’s partners in
Bangladesh

73. CGFB Haiti Study tour 2011. Ecole Nationale
de Trouin near Leogane, Haiti.

74. Indian child

75. Indian village group

76. Combines ready to harvest crops
for the Good Grains Bank

77. Combine finished harvesting for
food grains program

78. Haitian child

79. 2010 Haiti earthquake damage

80. 2010 Haiti earthquake damage to
Capitol building

81. Laos water well project

82. Notes to be added

83. Mali goat herd in poor condition due to drought

84. Mali cooking facilities

85. The Fulani people of Mali

86. Sara in Bangladesh

87. A new well in Sierra Leone

88. Kenya. Food distribution

89. Ethiopian dancers celebrate
new irrigation project

90. Canadian Food Grains Bank
distribution in Tanzania

91. A corn farmer in Lesotho

92. Digging a canal in Bangladesh

93. A sewing project in Bangladesh

94. A sorghum crop in South Sudan

95. South Sudan continues to experience
poverty issues related to wars and drought

96. A neighborhood council in Senegal
meets for community development needs

97. A new home is completed in Haiti
after their 2010 earthquake, 3,000 th built by
CRWRC

98. Jack Dalmaijer at the 40th anniversary of
CRWRC in the Philippines

100. Haiti asks for earthquake help, 2010

101. A development team in Cambodia

103. Notes to be added

104. Philippines. Red Hat for AIDS group

105. Indonesia Tsunami survivor.

106. Indonesia tsunami boy.

107. Indonesia tsunami relief program

108. Indonesia older lady

109. Community development meeting

110. Children in Nicaragua

111. Greenshirts in Action

112. Niger drought victim

113. Niger. Joel, age 20 gets food rations for family.

114. Niger. Tanlimba receives free food rations

115. Kenya. Health and nutrition needs of women
and children

116. Uganda. Students

117. Philippines farmer, Los Banos

118. Nicaragua YMCA volunteers youth community
centre.

119. Nicaragua bakery employees gain an income
through employment

120. Honduras. Pipeline brings water to a village.

121. CRWRC Guatemala staff Rev. Moises Colop
and staff.

122. 1978 Meeting with community leaders Nueva
Esperanza Miralta, Guatemala

123. 2012 Current Volunteers
Carol Paquette
Country: Honduras
Position:
Volunteer Community Development Assistant and Training Facilitator
Inglewood CRC
Country: Honduras
Position: Work Team
Kings University College
Country: Honduras
Position: Work Team
Japan Work Teams
Country: Japan
Work Teams September 2011 to July 2012

124. 2 gentlemen with Andy Ryskamp and Ida
Mutoigo