• Families in crisis need you.

    In places like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala families are fleeing for their lives.
    Your gift today helps them in their own backyard.

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.

  • Responding to an unprecedented refugee crisis

    We are serving children, women and men in crisis and the communities who offer refuge

  • 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.

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Carolyn Barker-Villena, Lutheran World Relief's regional director for Latin America, recently returned from El Salvador. Amid the poverty and despair, she saw hope. https://t.co/8uNolrgNEn https://t.co/7kCYEJUI8x

  • July 16, 2019
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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.