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                    2021 Hunger Challenge: Our most urgent challenge yet

                    Teer Majak Mun was near death from starvation. Thanks to your love, his mother was able to take him to a Lutheran World Relief-supported nutrition stabilization center, where he recovered. But for every Teer we treat, there’s another starving child out of reach. Learn More

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                    Video: Smallholder farmers are producing export-quality sesame in Burkina Faso

                    • Kara Eberle
                    • Dec 4, 2020

                    In Burkina Faso, Lutheran World Relief is strengthening the sesame value chain and with it the lives of thousands of smallholder farmers, who are now producers of export-quality...

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                    Video: Bringing Christ's light to life in Beirut

                    • Kara Eberle
                    • Dec 1, 2020

                    In the middle of Lebanon's darkness, your love has shown through for people in need. See some of the ways you've helped and meet the people who have hope for a future thanks to ...

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                    Video: Introducing Corus International

                    • Kara Eberle
                    • Dec 1, 2020

                    We are an ensemble of non-profits and for-profits working in concert to end extreme poverty once and for all.

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                    Video: Thank you for 75 Years of Faithful Impact

                    • Kara Eberle
                    • Oct 1, 2020

                    One-fifth of the world’s Lutherans were left homeless by 1945, at the end of the Second World War. That same year, Lutheran churches in the U.S. mobilized to help in Europe thro...

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                    Video: Early warning saves Rajendra's community

                    • Kara Eberle
                    • Aug 1, 2020

                    Once at risk to sudden floods from the river they consider sacred, LWR work has helped provide Rajendra’s community with hours of notice ahead of flooding.

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                    Video: Helping vulnerable neighbors survive flood season

                    • Kara Eberle
                    • Aug 1, 2020

                    See how your love helps save the lives of families in some of the world’s most forsaken places.

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                    Video: Paulina Acii

                    • Kara Eberle
                    • Jun 1, 2020

                    Paulina Acii survived three wars. Now living in a refugee camp with her only living relative, she is forced to choose between staying healthy, by avoiding the market and the ris...

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                    Starting over: Venezuelan families flee turmoil and reestablish their lives in Peru

                    • Kara Eberle
                    • Apr 24, 2019

                    There is an exodus happening in South America. Thousands of people are fleeing Venezuela in the midst of a crippling economic and political crisis that has led to scores of fami...

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                    Families fleeing turmoil in Venezuela reestablish their lives in Peru

                    • Kara Eberle
                    • Apr 24, 2019
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                    Young entrepreneurs in Uganda provide valuable support to fellow farmers

                    • John Rivera
                    • Sep 12, 2018
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