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Clean water is the main and vital need for human life and other living creatures’. As clean water resources have become scarce, many efforts to maintain sufficient good quality water have taken place in communities. Water resource management, which requires capable and skilled human resources, becomes a top priority. Therefore, the need of clean water that continues to rise over the years can be fulfilled.

CWS Indonesia's Lesvi Roselim and Rod MacLeod, a consultant with INTRAC based in Oxford, carrying out an impact assessment for Christian Aid and Prospery Raymond, Christian Aid's Country Director for Haiti, traveled to five districts: Aceh Besar, Banda Aceh, Pidie Jaya, Aceh Barat and Nagan Raya in Aceh Province where CWS provided assistance to the community affected by earthquake and tsunami in 2004. The visit from October 3 to 13, 2011 conducted as part of Christian Aid Impact Assessment aimed to draw out lessons and implications of its future humanitarian response policy and practice.

Poso - Church World Service Indonesia has just conducted a health and nutrition baseline survey in three sub-districts of Poso District, Central Sulawesi in October 2011. The findings show that 58% of the respondent children under-five were anemic (HB < 11 g/dl). According to World Health Organization, it falls into high prevalence category, therefore needs intervention to reduce the number of children with anemia.

Bogor - Puri Avia hall is packed with people wearing a t-shirt with a message "Getting to Zero". The message on the t-shirt is the 2011 WAD theme, which translates into three goals expected to be achieved by 2015: zero new HIV infection, zero AIDS-related death, and zero discrimination.

Cipayung - Millions of women throughout the world have become victims of many kinds of violence such as domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, torture and abuse of women prisoners, or violence in armed conflict that often lead to trauma, physical handicapped, and even death. In war and conflict, women and girls are the most vulnerable groups; they can be victims of rape that is used by soldiers as a weapon of war to subjugate a community. At home, they often deal with physically aggressive partner or relatives. In many communities, issues pertaining to family life are considered private and beyond public authorities' purview. Should dispute and disturbances arise, they would be best kept within the family. To seek outside help would be an act of disobedience. Those seeking protection therefore are often offered no alternative but to return to the abuser and continue being victimized.