Church World Service is a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.CWS was born in 1946 in the aftermath of World War II. Now, more than 75 years later, CWS works across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and North America to help build a world where everyone has food, a voice and a safe place to call home.