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Poso – Psychosocial intervention is critical in post-conflict areas like Poso District, Central Sulawesi. According to the baseline survey Church World Service conducted in 2008, community members, especially children and women, still suffered from trauma after the community-based violence that occurred several years ago. With the support from the United States Agency for International Development or USAID, CWS conducted Psychosocial Support for Peace and Conflict Mitigation in several sub-districts in Poso District.   

Cipayung – Erika Feller, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner – Protection, and Pascale Moreau, Deputy Director of the Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, visited  the Church World Service “Protecting Urban Refugees throught Empowerment” (PURE) project on Thursday, 11 February 2010. They were accompanied by UNHCR Representative for Indonesia and Timor Leste, Manuel Jordão, as well as UNCHR Indonesia staff. The UNHCR delegation visited the refugee center in Cipayung, Bogor, run by CWS to observe activities and talk to the refugees. .

Cipayung. The room is not big, but there’s just enough room for Fariba to let her four children run around with dolls in their hands. However her youngest daughter, a tired and cranky 2-year-old, clings by her side. “Playing here is all they do every day,” said Fariba, who didn’t use her real name for security reasons.

One lesson Indonesians have learned and which Haiti is experiencing too is that earthquakes don’t kill people, but broken buildings and broken infrastructure do. Church World Service understands how natural and human disasters affect individuals and local communities all over the world. We build short- and long-term partnerships to serve people who are often overlooked, often anticipating and responding to natural and human disasters.

Protection means promoting the safety, dignity and fundamental rights of individuals and communities. CWS's work on protection stems from a core commitment to human dignity. For CWS, protection means creating the conditions under which people are empowered and enabled to live safe and dignified lives. It acknowledges that humanitarian and development programs may either increase or decrease peoples' safety and dignity depending on how they are carried out.