Committee for World Service Meeting

12 Jan 2020 - All day
Invitation Only
A Rohingya family in an IDP camp in Pauktaw, near Sittwe. LWF, among others, runs informal learning spaces and trains teachers to provide education for the displaced children. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

A Rohingya family in an IDP camp in Pauktaw, near Sittwe. LWF, among others, runs informal learning spaces and trains teachers to provide education for the displaced children. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

Time: 12 Jan 2020 - All day

Being one of the two annual meetings of the Committee for World Service, this meeting will take place as a visit to an LWF country program, with a focus on exposure, thematic issues and topical issues pertinent to humanitarian and development action

On its visit to the LWF program in Myanmar, the Committee for World Service will be looking at challenges of the Rohinga conflict, encampment policies, inter-religious conflict and working in that setting and accountability mechanisms, as well as meeting with all the member churches in Myanmar and participating in a donor round table.

A Rohingya family in an IDP camp in Pauktaw, near Sittwe. LWF, among others, runs informal learning spaces and trains teachers to provide education for the displaced children. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

A Rohingya family in an IDP camp in Pauktaw, near Sittwe. LWF, among others, runs informal learning spaces and trains teachers to provide education for the displaced children. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

Time: 12 Jan 2020 - All day