CCHD: Five Years of 'Recognizing the Stranger'
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They come from the ranks of the poor, migrants, and dispossessed, and they have learned to help those like themselves. Even a pandemic did not stop Recognizing the Stranger. This national program, now in its fifth year, emerged from a partnership between the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) and community organizers from the West/Southwest Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)....
Solidarity and Success: Five Years of 'Recognizing the Stranger', CCHD
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