LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF's
APPROACH AND WORK

| Organizational Overview | LWR's Approach and Work | Accompaniment |

SECTORS OF OUR WORK PEACE AND JUSTICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT

LWR works in rural areas around the world seeking to make an impact and build sustainable, resilient, productive and just communities through programs that:

• Alleviate human suffering in situations of both acute and chronic distress;
  
  
• Reduce the vulnerability of communities to natural and human-caused emergencies;
  
  
• Assist communities in satisfying their basic human rights for liberty and security, education, food, health, and livelihood, in ways that are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable; and,
  
  
• Help communities become empowered to influence decision-makers on issues that affect their dignity and rights.

We approach these four goals through programming in emergency response, risk management, sustainable rural development and peace and justice. These four aspects of our work are integrally linked, each building on the other symbiotically to meet the needs and defend the rights of the community. Together, they work to increase community independence, augment the means to pursue and achieve productive livelihoods, and strengthen community voice in decision making processes, while reducing community vulnerability to external forces and events.