Benedicta Mone holds her 15 month old daugther, Indriyani, while CWS nurse, Agnes Eva Liunokas (right), feed her a special milk formula outside the Therapeutic Feeding Center (TFC). The TFC treats malnourished children in the rural Timor Tengah Selatan District of West Timor, Indonesia. Operated out of the local hospital, CWS nurses provide care around the clock: administering medicine, establishing frequent feeding schedules and education for the parents to prepare nutritious food once back at home. Photo: CWS
Breast feeding time in Myanmar. Photo: CWS
Lin Lae Cho girl is one of TB patients that CWS support in Myanmar. Photo: CWS
Many vulnerable people in Asia – especially women and children – face difficulty in accessing basic health services. This is often due to the lack of hospitals, health personnel and essential medicine.
CWS mobilizes its resources to provide life-saving interventions in response to the health needs of high-risk communities. Primary health care efforts support families affected by disasters – including refugees, internally displaced persons, host communities and returnees. Prevention and awareness are central to saving lives, combating diseases and preventing major outbreaks and epidemics.
In addition, we believe that by responding to the health needs of disaster-affected communities, families are better able to address their other needs and rights – including education. Education builds the capacity of children, youth and adults to fully understand their rights and opportunities.
Countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Timor-Leste and Vietnam
CWS Vietnam | October 23, 2018
By Tran Van Thang, CWS Project Officer. Giang Thi Dinh, 35, is the mother of two young children in Nam Mo village, which is quite difficult to reach even though it is just 25 km (≈15 miles) from the district town. This is because the dirt road that winds through the mountains to Nam Mo […]
CWS Myanmar | October 22, 2018
In Koe Ein Tan (West) village of southwest Myanmar’s Ayeyarwaddy region, 16 children under the age of five were assessed as malnourished during a CWS-led nutrition survey in early 2017. To address this fact, which exists in other nearby village and other parts of the country as well, the children and their mothers joined nutrition […]
CWS Myanmar | September 19, 2018
Khin Myo Thant is 33 and married to U Aung Ko, who is 35; they live with their only son, Hein Aung Soe who is 3 and a half in They Sin Ku Taung village in the Ayerwaddy River delta region of southwest Myanmar. Khin Myo spends most of her time taking care of Hein […]
CWS Timor-Leste | August 21, 2018
Marcos Martins and his wife, Filomena do Santos, live in Maumetalau aldeia (hamlet) in rural north-central Timor-Leste with their two daughters, who are three and two years old. They are subsistence farmer like most families in their remote mountain village, and they are able to grow enough vegetables so that they can sell some in […]
CWS Cambodia | August 19, 2018
Oeun E is the Village Health Volunteer of Sophy village in western Cambodia. E lives with his wife and their four children, ages 16 to 19, two of whom are in secondary school. Unfortunately, the other two dropped out of school and help the family earn money with farm work. Besides being committed to helping […]
CWS Myanmar | July 23, 2018
Thin Thin Khaing, is a 27-year-old mother whose small family benefits from her participation in CWS-led nutrition education activities. She and her husband, Kan Tun, have a 4-year-old daughter named May Phu Khaing, and they have lived in Let Pan Tan village for many years. As poor farmers they earn about 40,000 Kyat ($29) monthly […]
CWS Timor-Leste | July 22, 2018
In Timor-Leste nearly 20% of girls marry before they are age 18 and almost 25% have at least one child by the time they are 20. Further, the country’s median age is about 19 years, and the fertility rate is just under 5 children per woman (World Fact Book, 2017) – double the world average […]
CWS Myanmar | June 21, 2018
Hnin Nanda Aung is a happy and healthy child, living in a small village in the Ayeyarwaddy River delta region. CWS got to know her during CWS-organized weight monitoring sessions that are part of nutrition education activities for mothers and other caregivers, and staff noticed how much she laughs and smiles while talking and playing […]
CWS Timor Leste | June 20, 2018
Twentysomethings Clementina Pintu dos Santosher and Bernadus Lalus and their two young children live in a village high in the mountains above a nearby town that is not far, by distance, from Timor-Leste’s capital city, Dili. Yet, life is hard for the family: Bernadus works odd jobs a few dollars at a time, Clementina has […]
CWS Timor Leste | May 18, 2018
Lebucaility and Gariana hamlets are located in Timor Leste’s mountains in a district whose central town is just 20 miles west – but decades behind – the country’s capital, Dili. Using dangerous dirt roads to reach their tiny enclaves, CWS staff have come to work with several hundred subsistence farming families who use traditional agricultural […]
CWS Myanmar |
So begins the story of one 30-year-old women with whom CWS is proud to work in Myanmar. “I live with my husband, Ko Aung Win, and our two sons, Kaung Khant Aung, who is 10 years old and in Grade 4 and Aung Phone Khant, who is just 14 months old. During the dry season […]
CWS Myanmar | May 17, 2018
“My name is Ma Khin San. I am a 36-year-old daily wage farm worker, and my husband, U Kyaw Naing Myint, is 38 and a wage worker, too. Together, we earn about 6,500 Kyat ($5) each day for about 15 days of work each month during the six-month dry season, which makes us very poor. […]
CWS Vietnam |
By Nguyen Thi Hai Yen, CWS Program Officer. Me Van Lap is a 30-year-old health worker at a small clinic in remote Than Uyen district, where CWS is partnering with local government workers so people have the chance to improve their personal health, family and environmental health and wellbeing. Though rather young, Lap has worked […]
CWS Indonesia |
Yosber Sae and Esther Kikhau are a fortysomething couple who live in a remote hamlet in far southeastern Indonesia on the island of Timor. They have three children: Riski Rivan Sae, 18; Raiden Sae, 8 and Ririn January Sae, 4. Before joining CWS-organized Timor Zero Hunger activities a few years ago, the family was raising […]
CWS Myanmar | April 17, 2018
Ko Myo Kyi and Ma Khin New Aye live in Taung Tar Yar village in Myanmar’s far southwest Ayeyarwady Region, which is defined by the far-reaching Ayeyarwady River system that has hundreds of powerful tributaries by which people live but also because of which they struggle sometimes. Ko Kyi and Ma Ayge have three children: […]
CWS Cambodia |
Bun Ratha, 28, lives with her husband, Horm Chanthorn, 25, and their 4-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter in Rung Chrey village in western Cambodia. They are farmers living on her mother’s land and raising ducks for a living. But their income is quite low and they have high interest loan payments due from buying the […]
CWS Myanmar | March 16, 2018
Ma Khaing is a 39-year-old mother of 5 children and, besides the huge job of being a mother and homemaker, she has an added job selling fish. Ko Ye Tun, who is Ma Khaing’s 36-year-old husband, works as a wage laborer and fisherman. Their children’s ages span 17 years, starting with Yamin Hlaing, who is […]
CWS Timor Leste | February 19, 2018
“I am so happy that we had an opportunity to visited Soe and see Timor Zero Hunger activities and impact in communities,” is how Timor-Leste Program Manager Odete Peloy began her report on the Timor-Leste team’s trip to West Timor. Then she continued, “After a briefing from the project team on the first day, we […]
CWS Myanmar | February 17, 2018
CWS had joined the 67-member Scaling-Up Nutrition Civil Society Alliance, at the Myanmar national and Ayeyarwaddy regional levels as one of 14 international NGO members. The SUN-CSA goal is to eliminate all forms of malnutrition; and, invoking the principle that everyone has a right to food and good nutrition, the alliance unites civil society organizations […]
CWS Myanmar | December 19, 2017
Ma Ohn May is 43 and lives with her husband-U Kyaw Myint and their six children in Let Pan Tan village in southwest Myanmar. U Kyaw Myint is as fisherman and daily wage laborer, depending on the season. In the rainy season, he fishes from his own small boat to earn about 2,000 Myanmar Kyat […]