Domestic Programs Support Unit

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Domestic Programs Support Unit

• Domestic constituents promote global social
  justice and peace by engaging in CRS programs and
  using our resources.

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Economic Justice
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BUILDING An ECONOMY FOR EVERYONE
Producers
Consumers
Partners
www.crsfairtrade.org
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CRS ECONOMIC JUSTICE Program
Raise Right Make the world sweeter
for cocoa farmers.
Coffee Drink great coffee you can feel
good about.
Work of Human Hands Give gifts that give
hope.
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CRS ECONOMIC JUSTICE Program
Fair Trade Fund Help people help
themselves.
Beyond Fair Trade Make the economy work
for everyone.
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
supports Fair Trade programs through which
disadvantaged artisans, farmers and farmworkers
receive fair compensation for the goods they
produce.
Act Now
Fair Trade Soccer The Beautiful Game Gets Even
BetterYou may not have Ronaldinho's speed or be
able to bend it like Beckham, but you CAN have
the world's first Fair Trade soccer ball thanks
to our friends at Peace Coffee. read more
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Current News
CRS Offers Sweat-Free Sudan TeeWhen you buy this
sweat-free tee shirt, you make a contribution to
the CRS Sudan Emergency Fund and help to create
real alternatives to sweatshop labor. When you
wear it, you make a statement to the world.
(HURRY--SUPPLY IS LIMITED!) read more --gt
The economy should work for people, and not the
other way around. Economic Justice for All
A Sweet Summer for Cocoa Farmers 178,000 in
SalesJust as temperatures are rising (it's 80
degrees in Ghana right now) our chocolate sales
are growing. Thanks to you, we are less than
25,000 from reaching our goal, and cocoa farmers
in Ghana are better off! read more --gt
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• Peacebuilding

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Cyber Bridges

• We bring you the world as it is.
• Imagine what it could be.

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• Cyber Bridges is a journey of discovery for youth
  leading to cultural understanding and global
  leadership

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• Cyber Bridges promotes cross-cultural
  understanding and youth leadership between
  American Catholic secondary school level students
  and students in selected countries throughout the
  CRS world.

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• Employing information technology as one of the
  links, youth participants will engage in
  dialogue, information sharing, collaborative
  activities, training and projects that work
  towards a shared vision of social justice and
  peace.

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Cyber Bridges Teaching Guidelines

• When we teach WHO AM I?
• Students discover I AM YOU.
• When we teach WHO ARE YOU?
• Students discover WE ARE ONE HUMAN FAMILY.
• When we teach WHO ARE WE?
• Students discover WE ARE THE WORLD.
• When we teach WHERE DID I COME FROM?
• Students discover WE ARE MORE ALIKE THAN
  DIFFERENT.
• When we teach WHERE ARE WE NOW?
• Students discover WE SEE THROUGH GLOBAL EYES.
• When we teach WHERE ARE WE GOING?
• Students discover WE ARE THE FUTURE.
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The way it works

• Each school is matched with an American partner
  school.
• Students are divided into small groups and
  matched with a partner group.
• The Cyber Bridges website is the primary medium
  of communication.
• Teachers are supported by the CRS program
  officer in Baltimore and designated staff and
  partners in the field.

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• We at CRS base all of our efforts on the firm
  belief that solidarity will transform the world.
• By connecting youth using modern technology and
  offering them opportunities to gain an
  understanding of global issues and empathize with
  their brothers and sisters around the world,
  they will become informed, humane global leaders.
• Living in true solidarity acquired through real
  cross-cultural relationships, our young people
  are equipped to imagine and strive for the world
  as it should be.

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• Justice Education

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• The CRS Global Fellows A Parish Homily Program

Connects Empowers Engages
Mike Denk, a seminarian from St. Mary's Seminary
in Cleveland, volunteers at the Brother
Missionary of Charity Center in Antsirabe,
Madagascar.
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• Connects priests, deacons, and seminarians with
  our brothers and sisters in the developing world.
  Through an overseas immersion trip, Global
  Fellows experience the plight of the poor and
  marginalized first hand.

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• Empowers priests, deacons, and seminarians to
  preach in parishes across the U.S. about social
  justice and peace around the world.

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• Engages Catholics with the world's poor by
  inviting them to act on the inspirational stories
  they hear when Global Fellows visit their
  parishes.

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• www.crs.org/globalfellows

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• Campaigns
• Communications

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Africa Rising! Hope Healing Catholic
Campaign Against Global Poverty Justice for
Immigrants Catholic Campaign for Peace in the
Holy Land
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Campaigns and Communications

• Resources
• The Advocate
• Monthly E-newsletter
• Backgrounders Primers
• Foreign Aid
• Haiti Backgrounder
• Prayers Bulletin Inserts

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• Food Security

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www.crs.org/orb
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Lenten Materials

• Foster prayer, fasting, learning, and giving for
  the
• Individual
• Family
• Classroom (religious education or Catholic
  school)
• Parish/school
• Other faith communities

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Lenten Materials

• Foster prayer, fasting, learning, and giving for
  the
• Individual
• Family
• Classroom (religious education or Catholic
  school)
• Parish/school
• Other faith communities

Web Resources www.crs.org/orb
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Operation Rice Bowl Website
www.crs.org/orb
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Resources for Diocesan Directors

• Bi-monthly ORB newsletter
• DD Resource page
• ORB Training materials

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What is
Food Fast?
A hunger awareness retreat for youth ages 13-18
Connects
global hunger and poverty issues
with the tradition of fasting through the
lens of CST. Created by Sr. Joan Weber, SSND in
1986 in New York Re-established in 1995 after
a pilot program in 9 dioceses (Baltimore,
Columbus, Knoxville, Los Angeles, Philadelphia,
Rockville Center, San Antonio, St. Paul and
Seattle).
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How can youth groups participate?

• Order the FREE Food Fast materials
• A user-friendly Coordinators Manual (available
  in Spanish)
• CD-ROM
• Videos (available in Spanish)
• Giveaway Item
• Organize a Food Fast
• Face the Fast !

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Visit www.foodfast.org for more information
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