COVID-19: AJWS Updates from the Field

Impact Update: Supporting Communities in India during COVID’s Delta Surge

In May 2021, AJWS launched a crisis campaign in response to the profound humanitarian tragedy…

These Activists Won’t Let the Pandemic Destroy Young Peoples’ Futures

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare in alarming ways how unprepared the world has been…

“We cannot stop working, it’s that simple” — Supporting India’s Most Vulnerable People Through the COVID Surge

When we launched an emergency campaign to respond to India’s unprecedented COVID-19 surge earlier this…

Winning the Fight for Vaccine Equity in the Dominican Republic

As talk of COVID-19 vaccines swept the world in early 2021, a new human rights…

Dispatch from Delhi: A COVID-19 Update from AJWS’s India Advisors

There’s a haunting hush hanging all over New Delhi right now, broken only by the…

Town Criers and Hand-Stitched Masks: How an AJWS Grantee Halted COVID-19 in Kenya’s Lamu Island

When Shee Kibwana Shee was growing up in Lamu Island, Kenya, he always dreamed of…

Internet Connection Sparks Hope for the Persecuted Rohingya People

After a full year almost completely cut off from the internet or cell phone reception,…

Mobilize, Organize, Sanitize: How a Young Woman in India Kept Her Community Safe from COVID-19

On March 25th, India suddenly announced a strict, severe national lockdown—the largest in the world,…

Locked Down, But Never Silent

“Men and women are equal!” “Let us read, let us study!” These are some of…

AJWS in Action: Updates from Our Partners, June 4

Across the world, AJWS grantee-partners continue to meet the most desperate needs of their communities:…

Joint Statement and Recommendations By the Child, Early & Forced Marriage & Unions and Sexuality Working Group, and Partners

The global pandemic COVID-19 lays bare and exacerbates existing inequalities. For adolescent girls and young…

AJWS in Action: Updates from Our Partners, May 21

As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, AJWS grantee-partners have shifted their work dramatically to meet…

AJWS In Action: Updates from Our Partners, April 30

From domestic abuse to hunger and economic collapse, the pandemic is causing massive problems far…

Locking Down Domestic Violence in India During the Pandemic

When India declared a full, police-enforced lockdown in March to halt the spread of COVID-19,…

Exodus in India: Migrant Workers During the World’s Largest Lockdown

When India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared — with only a few hours notice — that the…

AJWS in Action: Updates from Our Partners, April 17

Right now, the organizations AJWS supports are courageously fighting on the frontlines of the pandemic…

Activists in Conversation: How COVID-19 Is Impacting Guatemala’s Indigenous Communities

Across the world, COVID-19 is ravaging low-income communities unprepared to take on a global pandemic…

Leading Jewish Global Human Rights Group Warns of COVID-19’s Danger to Rohingya People, Calls On U.S. to Act

American Jewish World Service gravely concerned that hundreds of thousands are in peril Tracey Gurd,…

AJWS in Action: Updates from Our Partners, April 1

AJWS is supporting hundreds of activists and social change organizations on the frontlines of the…

COVID-19 Strikes All 18 Countries Where AJWS Works

COVID-19 has arrived in the countries where AJWS works—threatening the lives and livelihoods of some…

Leading Global Jewish Charity Seeks Donations to Support Local Groups Across Developing Countries As Covid-19 Spreads

American Jewish World Service (AJWS) Supports Locally Driven Efforts as Pandemic Hits the Developing World…

Defending Human Rights During COVID-19

The world looks different each and every day when we wake up. We’re all aware…