Catholic Relief Services in the News
- Going Where the Trouble Is
- New Hampshire native Jennifer Poidatz has seen a lot of the world. For 15 years, her work for Catholic Relief Services has sent her trotting the globe to some of the most notorious hotspots of civil and economic strife. In 1994, she was sent to Rwanda, then in the throes of a genocidal civil war — the first in a series of “crisis” assignments in countries devastated by ethnic or political violence. Posts in Haiti, Burundi, and Angola followed. In 2005, she managed CRS’s tsunami relief in Sri Lanka.Now, in her current post as CRS’s country representative for India, she’s tackling a food crisis plaguing the nation of more than a billion people.
- source: Manchester Hippo Press, July 2008
