• Your gift DOUBLES today!

    Through December 31, reach out to hungry families and your gifts will be matched.

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.
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Our Impact

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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.

  • Creating hope and opportunity in post-war Mosul, Iraq

    Your gifts support three community centers providing training to help people create their own jobs.

  • Home is where the hope is

    Refugees from South Sudan are growing thriving gardens at a settlement in northern Uganda.

  • Creating a brighter future for young people in Latin America

    Farming has the potential to help young people living in extreme poverty change their lives.

Give Where Needed Most

LWRGIFTS

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Through our Transboundary Resilience Project, @LuthWorldRelief is helping local communities along major rivers in #Nepal and #India improve early warning systems to save lives during monsoon flooding. https://t.co/8wo0WuNUN3

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    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
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    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
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    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

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I support LWR because…

Lutheran World Relief brings a level of accountability and thoughtfulness to their projects that you don’t always see elsewhere.

John Tangren and Anne Choate, faithful donors Read More
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.