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Susan Muis (center) with the Madesh community. Photo: LWF

Local strength and resilience in Nepal
By
Susan Muis

Humanitarian
Blog
25 Jun 2025
Ngomoromo transit site in Lamwo district, northern Uganda - a main entry point for refugees from South Sudan into Uganda. Photo: LWF/ Victor Wahome

Host communities: The heart of any refugee response
By
Stella Namatovu

Humanitarian
Blog
13 May 2025
Pascal in Musenyi, Burundi. Photo: LWF/ D. Rukundo

Burundi: Since childhood, I have known nothing but war
By
Pascal, Recorded by Diogène Rukundo

Humanitarian
Blog
10 Apr 2025
Ali Alsamrah in Homs, his home city. Photo: LWF/ A. Alsamrah

Returning to Syria: A journey of hope and heartbreak
By
Ali Alsamrah

Humanitarian
Blog
18 Feb 2025
Former LWF Country director Koepp in Kakuma. Photo: Robert Koepp

Kakuma: A new home for the “Lost Boys”
By
Robert Koepp

Humanitarian
Blog
07 Feb 2025
Pontien at the first meeting in 2023 . Photo:LWF/ L. Gillabert

Burundi: From Bumba to the world
By
Léa Gillabert

Humanitarian
Blog
27 Aug 2024
Mathieu Idjawo

Managing a forest in Cameroon
By
Mathieu Idjawo

Climate
Humanitarian
Blog
30 Jul 2024
Volunteers at a reception center for people displaced from the front line, near Kharkiv. Photo: LWF/ Anatolyi Nazarenko

Trenches, flowers and hope in Ukraine
By
Cornelia Kästner-Meyer

Humanitarian
Communion
Blog
15 Jul 2024
Marie-Anne Sliwinski with members of the local community in Angola. Photo: ELCA

Light and Hope in Angola
By
Marie Anne Sliwinski

Humanitarian
Justice
Blog
24 Jun 2024
Mark Mullan, the LWF Team Leader in Ukraine, meets a family in Kharkiv whose apartment was damaged by a missile strike. LWF will renovate this family’s home. Photo: LWF/ Anatoliy Nazarenko

“One of the most challenging countries I ever worked in”
By
Mark Mullan

Humanitarian
Blog
18 Aug 2023
Roger Kalimira, in front of a water bladder he helped install. Photo: LWF/ M. Idjawo

Water in the desert
By
Roger Kalimira

Humanitarian
Blog
18 Aug 2023
A group of refugees in Dosseye camp in southern Chad who are benefitting from LWF’s project for improved livelihood and access to land. (Photos taken before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic). All photos: LWF/Ophélie Schnoebelen

Welcoming strangers, finding friendship
By
Ophélie Schnoebelen, Rights-Based Approach program officer for LWF’s Department for World Service

Churches
Justice
Humanitarian
Blog
10 Jun 2021

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