• Vulnerable families need you

    Your gift can help a child fighting deadly disease receive quality medical care

Breaking the cycle of poverty for lasting change.

  • Restore
    We provide aid in emergencies and help families restore their lives.
     Restore
  • Build
    We partner with communities to build and grow rural economies.
     Build
  • Thrive
    We break the cycle of poverty so families and communities can thrive.
     Thrive

Our Impact

Today, we will reach
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people living in poverty

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Where We Work

COUNTRIES

  Quilt and Kits of Care distributions.

  Long-term development project and/or emergency response.

  • World Refugee Day

    LWR is responding to the worst refugee crisis in modern history

  • Investing in families in El Salvador, Guatemala & Honduras

    In Central America, we create opportunities for meaningful employment so that families thrive and live securely in their homeland.

  • Partners in promoting women’s leadership

    Lutheran World Relief and The Starbucks Foundation support women-led community health and hygiene programs in Indonesia and Colombia.

  • United for impact

    Our first joint programs with IMA World Health offer a glimpse of what’s to come.

Give Where Needed Most

LWRGIFTS

Give a Gift. Change a Life.

VISIT STORE

Lutheran World Relief brings together displaced people and members of their host communities to improve livelihoods and food security, generate new economic opportunities, and mitigate conflict. See how we’re doing it: https://t.co/LsdgL8N160 #WorldRefugeeDay #StepWithRefugees

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Get Involved. Make a Difference.

  • Celebrate National Quilting Day!
    Make Mission Quilts

    Make Mission Quilts

    Warm bedding. A swaddling cloth. Shelter from the elements. An LWR Quilt provides many blessings to people in need around the world.

    LWR Mission Quilts
  • Build Kits of Care
    Build Kits of Care

    Build Kits of Care

    School Kits, Baby Care Kits, Fabric Kits and Personal Care Kits: Assemble ordinary items into extraordinary gifts of love for people coping with war, disaster and poverty.

    LWR Kits of Care
  • Buy Coffee
    Buy Coffee

    Buy Coffee

    LWR Farmers Market Coffee is sourced directly from farmers participating in Lutheran World Relief projects. That means your purchases help lift coffee farming families out of poverty!

    LWR Farmers Market
Emergency Response

In a World of Crisis,
Do a World of Good

Your gift to our emergency response fund provides families
with the life-saving support they need right now.