After an intense two weeks of negotiations at the climate change summit in Paris a historic agreement was reached but for the people of Northern Ethiopia it is already too late. They are already experiencing the effects of El Niño, a global…
In 1984, Adrienne Mornement was one of the nurses deployed with the LWF in the Ethiopian village of Mote during one of the worst famines the country had ever seen. Thirty years later her daughter, Hannah Mornement, travelled to…
LWF World Service Kenya - Djibouti Program representative Lennart Hernander urges leaders to put human rights at the fore of decisions concerning refugee camps in Kenya.
Abdifatah is eight years old but has never spoken. That is the trauma conflict causes. The trauma the education that the Australian Lutheran World Service plans to support can help heal. Impressions from a visit to Ali Addeh refugee camp,…
Jonathan Krause, fundraising officer at Australian Lutheran World Service, met refugees from Yemen in Djibouti’s Ali Addeh refugee camp whose lives have been changed forever.
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) works to improve the human rights situation in South Sudan and Uganda through the Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism.
Since 2015, the LWF has implemented global social and…
The literal translation of the name of the refugee camp is “Nowhere”. The Kakuma camp was meant to be temporary one, a place to shelter the “lost boys”, former child soldiers from South Sudan. It has become a town of about 200,000 inhabitants…