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LWF Jordan staff, refugees and host community members take part in a training on hydroponics farming. The system uses 90 percent less water compared to conventional farming, and it is powered by photovoltaic panels, which also reduce fossil fuel energy consumption. Photo: LWF Jordan/Daham Al-Hamad
Jordan: Saving water while improving food security
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22 Apr 2022
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22 Apr 2022
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Children looking by a window at the Katalyeba Early Learning Center, in Rwamwanja, Uganda. The center welcomes children from both the host community and the refugee settlement. Photo credit: LWF/M. Renaux
Uganda: LWF responds to urgent resource crisis for refugees
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21 Apr 2022
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21 Apr 2022
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LWF humanitarian support officer Katerina Brzicova and Samuel Reslour, a volunteer, assist in transporting relief items to a warehouse of the Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH), which is partnering with the LWF to distribute food and non-food items to refugees fleeing from Ukraine at the Zosin and Dohoruth borders. Photo: B. Khanal
LWF scales up response to Ukrainian refugee crisis
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20 Apr 2022
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20 Apr 2022
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A woman holds up a sign offering practical support for newly arrived families from Ukraine, at Nyugati station in Budapest, Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
European churches call for commitment to all refugees
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14 Apr 2022
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14 Apr 2022
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2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A group of South Sudanese refugee women from the Kuku ethnic group dance and sing as they gather at the 'God's Grace' women's self-help group in the Palorinya refugee settlement. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert 
Improving lives for generations – for hope and a future
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8 Apr 2022
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8 Apr 2022
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Leading Bishop Ralf Meister (right) and Diaconia Board Spokesperson Hans-Joachim Lenke in conversation with women who have fled Ukraine. Svitlana Kryzhanivska (left) interprets the discussion. Photo: Lothar Veit
Ukraine: “I don’t want to sit around until the war is over” 
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6 Apr 2022
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6 Apr 2022
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LWF General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt hears the testimonies of two teenage mothers in the Palorinya refugee settlement, Obongi district, Uganda, as part of a visit to the LWF country program in Uganda in April 2022. All photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
Uganda: ‘We understand our work as putting faith into action’
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5 Apr 2022
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5 Apr 2022
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Outside LWF's vocational training center in Ramallah – front row from left, program director Yousef Shalian, Bishop Ibrahim Azar, LWF Representative Sieglinde Weinbrenner, LWF Regional Program Coordinator Caroline Tveoy and Heather Platt from Canadian Lutheran World Relief. The ELCJHL’s director of education Dr Charlie Haddad and the ELCA’s Rev. Gabi Aelabouni are behind them. All photos: Abd Al Rahman Hadidi
Stepping up vocational training for Palestinian students
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5 Apr 2022
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5 Apr 2022
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A group of women from the Kajo-Keji Diocese march to church in the refugee settlement of Palorinya in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert 
‘There’s no commandment greater than loving your neighbor’ 
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4 Apr 2022
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4 Apr 2022
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