Love your neighbor
Our neighbors are struggling to survive. Your gift
gives them the lifesaving help they need.
Celebrating 75 Years of Life-Saving Love
In the midst of a pandemic, we mark the 75th anniversary of Lutherans in the U.S. coming together in love and service to neighbors in need around the world. Let us look back and give thanks for all we have accomplished – and prepare for the work that still lies ahead.
We’re breaking the cycle of poverty
for lasting change.
Your partner in global relief and development since 1945.
Where We Work
Quilt and Kits of Care distributions.
Long-term development project and/or emergency response.
COUNTRIES
- Angola
- Armenia
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Burkina Faso
- Chile
- Colombia
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Pakistan
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Serbia
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Chile
- Colombia
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Uruguay
- Angola
- Armenia
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Djibouti
- Ethiopia
- Georgia
- Greece
- Liberia
- Pakistan
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Ukraine
- Zambia
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Kenya
- South Sudan
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Burkina Faso
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Niger
- India
- Indonesia
- Nepal
- Philippines
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Syria
- Yemen
Give Where Needed Most
Make sure your gift goes directly to where it's most needed without delay, with a secure online donation.
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Give a Gift. Change a Life.
Get Involved. Make a Difference.
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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.
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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.
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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!