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                    Families in crisis need your help

                    Please find it in your heart to share your love and bring relief, comfort and essential supplies to your neighbors with the very least who are fighting for their lives in so many regions of the world. Learn More

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                    Women transform community health and hygiene in Indonesia

                    • Robin Schmid
                    • Mar 8, 2023

                    Through the MECIHO project, Lutheran World Relief expands women's leadership and civic engagement and improves mechanisms and services that support the advancement of healthier ...

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                    Earthquakes in Türkiye: You are providing survivors with safe, longer-term housing

                    • Mar 6, 2023

                    Because of kind and generous people like you, families who lost their homes in the quakes are getting safe, longer-term housing.

                  • SEE YOUR GENEROSITY AT WORK FOR FAMILIES AROUND THE WORLD

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                    Strengthening resilient communities: Disaster risk reduction and climate-smart agriculture in Nepal

                    • Mar 6, 2023

                    Through the Transboundary Flood Resilience (TBR) project, Lutheran World Relief and our local partners assisted communities located along the India-Nepal border to strengthen th...

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                    Inclusion in Economic and Livelihoods Programming: Women's Entrepreneurship in Lebanon

                    • Robin Schmid
                    • Mar 3, 2023

                    To address the importance of gender equality and social inclusion in market systems development, Corus organization Lutheran World Relief joined USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian ...

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                    You can rush aid to neighbors devastated by the earthquake in Turkey

                    • Feb 6, 2023

                    Right now, the best way to help is to make a donation now to quickly deliver lifesaving aid.

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                    [VIDEO] Your love provides hope for families fleeing the war in Ukraine

                    • Feb 1, 2023

                    Nearly a year ago, millions of people living in Ukraine were forced to flee their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs. Because of your love and generosity, th...

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                    Your love strengthens Yemen’s suffering farmers

                    • Jan 11, 2023

                    Yemen’s economy has collapsed. Seven years of civil war, plus the impact of COVID, the Ukraine war and natural disasters, has driven up prices and wreaked havoc on families alre...

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                    Hope blooms in Tanzania

                    • Niki Clark
                    • Jan 11, 2023

                    Tanzania is the world’s second largest producer of pyrethrum, and for smallholder farmers , particularly those who use best practices for production and harvesting, it can provi...

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                    In Memoriam: Kit Maker Barbara Brumbaugh

                    • Jan 11, 2023

                    Before her passing, Barbara Brumbaugh (right) made an estimated 500 Baby Care Kits over the past 20 years, inspiring friend and fellow Prince of Peace Lutheran Church (Goshen, I...

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                    Grandma Jan's favorite Gifts of Love

                    • Niki Clark
                    • Dec 20, 2022

                    This holiday season, join Grandma Jan and her family with a simple act of neighborly love that can transform lives.

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                    Your partnership in 2023 can be the difference between life and death for children and families

                    • Niki Clark
                    • Dec 14, 2022

                    Now more than ever, with the devastating war in Ukraine, severe hunger throughout Peru and floods and famine threatening South Sudan, needs are greater than ever. Our most vulne...

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                    Your love is transforming lives in Uganda, but so many still go without

                    • Niki Clark
                    • Nov 2, 2022

                    Even amid tragedy, your love is transforming lives. Because of your support, Lutheran World Relief is helping refugee families in the Palabek Refugee Camp in Uganda diversify th...

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                    Harvesting Generosity at Bethel Lutheran’s Harvest Sunday

                    • Niki Clark
                    • Oct 25, 2022

                    For 21 years, the congregation of Bethel Lutheran Church in Winchester, Virginia has come together in late summer for Harvest Sunday. And for 21 years, all the proceeds raised h...

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                    3 steps to break the cycle of poverty for women

                    • Niki Clark
                    • Oct 25, 2022

                    The hardships facing women are intensely challenging, no matter where they are located. And while this inequity is universal, in places like Guatemala it is particularly problem...

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                    Latin America Baseline Cocoa Barometer: Advancing research and innovation in the cocoa sector

                    • Oct 20, 2022

                    From cocoa market systems assessments and clonal garden baselines to Cacao Movil platform data and Cocoa Flavor Map information, MOCCA was able to provide significant support to...

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                    When families are torn apart by disaster, your love can do a world of good

                    • Niki Clark
                    • Oct 19, 2022

                    The World of Good Emergency Response Fund was established to ensure your love and support can be put to immediate use on the front lines — providing emergency food, water, shelt...

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                    USDA taps Lutheran World Relief for $21.3 million USDA Food for Progress project to improve Nigeria cocoa value chain

                    • Oct 12, 2022

                    The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding Lutheran World Relief $21.3 million under its Food for Progress Program to launch a cocoa productivity and marketing project in Nig...

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                    Innovative finance for resilience

                    • Oct 3, 2022

                    The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) is working together with Lutheran World Relief and the Near East Foundation to provide small-scale farmers with access to fairly priced l...

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                    Private sector engagement: Central America and the “business” of hope 

                    • Carolyn Barker-Villena
                    • Sep 28, 2022

                    We should engage with the private sector and strengthen local capacities to help make partnerships demonstrably more reciprocal and mutual.  Addressing the root causes of migrat...

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                    Your love can protect expecting mothers and their babies in the DRC

                    • Sep 26, 2022

                    in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mothers worry every day about the health of their newborn babies. With one of the world’s highest mortality rates for pregnant mothers and t...

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