LWF Member Church Needs More Assistance for Civilians Caught in CAR Crisis
(LWI) – It is Sunday evening at the St Timothy Lutheran Church in Bangui, and the main gate to the stone-walled compound is locked. Inside the poorly lit…
(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) will partner with the UN refugee agency UNHCR to assist refugees in Cameroon. After conducting an assessment in 2014, LWF developed a concept note for…
LWF supports refugees with small loans to generate income
(LWI) – Her assortment includes salt, onions, Maggi flavour cubes, little yellow peppers and cooking oil. Pointy plastic bags with the yellow liquid are shining in the afternoon…
“It is difficult to see so many people in need and not to be able to help them.”
GORE, Chad/ GENEVA – 12 August (LWI) - The people Deena Houmhisna works with have seen unimaginable things. “They have been in a war,” the young woman says…
CAR: innovative voucher system instead of aid distribution
(LWI) - “It’s just like a market, we can choose ourselves what we need!” says Charlotte*, one of the 565 visitors to the relief goods fair organized in Nola, Sangha Mbaere…
‘More positive examples needed from the CAR’, says LWF team leader
The president of the AFUDES women’s group in the Central African Republic (CAR) could have fled during the bitter 2013 conflict but she instead decided to stay in her…
(LWI) - A decision by the United Nations (UN) Security Council on 15 November to add a further 900 peacekeepers to the UN mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been welcomed by…
Returnees and host community members living and working together
(LWI) - Chad in central Africa continues to receive refugees from surrounding countries experiencing civil war, including the Central African Republic (CAR). Not but all…
