(LWI) – “It was about time the rain came,” Genio Maidoum says. Together with three younger brothers, the 16-year-old plows the family fields in Dosseye camp, southern Chad. They have one acre - the…
Christian and Muslim humanitarian organizations provide relief for marginalized groups
(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) have joined forces to provide shelter for 12,000 of the most vulnerable…
Family sheltering in LWF-supported camp in Tanzania
BUJUMBURA, Burundi/GENEVA – 9 June 2015 (LWI) - Ngendakumana Désiré is 26 years old and for the second time in his life, is a Burundian refugee in Tanzania.
“A responsibility to ensure the evidence we collect is robust”
MAPUTO, Mozambique/GENEVA, 29 May 2015 (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation is part of an NGO coalition that is gathering evidence of human rights concerns for a United…
New global standards expected to bring about greater accountability
Bogota, COLOMBIA/Geneva, 9 June 2015 (LWI) - The work of the Lutheran World Federation in Colombia has been held up as a model of how a new humanitarian…
“Deeply impressed with resilience of Nepalese people”
KATHMANU, Nepal/ GENEVA, 15 June 2015 (LWI) - There was an awkward moment when Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen visited…
“Common vision to protect dignity of girls and women”
(LWI) – Faith-based organizations have issued a joint statement for advancing women’s rights and denouncing gender-based violence at the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council. In…
ADJUMANI, Uganda / GENEVA, 20 June 2015 (LWI) – It’s exam time in Ayilo 1 primary school, but Nyaring’s (not her real name) smiling face indicates that maths and social science were not too…
DOHUK, Iraq/ GENEVA, 19 June 2015 (LWI) – Shahla Edno started her life in a plastic crate. Born in December 2014 at the Berseve 1 camp near the city of Zakho in Northern Iraq, her mother Kamla had…
DOSSEYE, Chad/ GENEVA, 19 June 2015 (LWI) - “A civil servant buys what he needs in a market. A farmer has it at home,” Daniel Deba, President of the seed production group quotes a proverb he learned…
