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[LWF Mauritania]

World Service staff attending the GLTM hold the names of the countries where they are working. Photo:LWF/A. Hillert

Rooted in faith, committed to serving others

World Service country program staff in Geneva for Global Leadership Team Meeting

Governance
Climate
Humanitarian
News
16 May 2019
Messages of peace in a school run by LWF in Upper Nile State, South Sudan. Photo: LWF/ C: Kästner

World Humanitarian Day: LWF calls for protection of humanitarian space

“Humanitarian workers have become soft targets for warring parties”

Churches
Justice
Humanitarian
News
17 Aug 2018
Jacob Longar Aleer. Photo: LWF/ S. Gallay

Working in a high-risk area

Interview with Jacob Aleer, LWF Security Focal Point in Jonglei, South Sudan

Churches
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17 Aug 2018
Women wash glasses to preserve vegetables in. Photo: LWF/ P. Lo Moro

“Blue flowers” in the desert

Humanitarian
Blog
12 Apr 2018
Bowba mint Brahim and Aichetou mint Khayling demonstrate their solar panels. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

Women engineers brighten the village

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania/ GENEVA, 7.

Theology
Humanitarian
Gender
News
07 Mar 2016
Young people in Mberra camp. They usually meet 3-4 days a week. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner

Preparing for leadership

MBERRA, Mauritania/ GENEVA, 4 February 2016 (LWI) – “It’s difficult to say how we pass our time in the camp.

Humanitarian
News
04 Feb 2016
Armed with tailoring skills taught by the LWF, Congolese refugee Bolozi Nzenze Budiaki has the chance to support her family in new home, Mauritania. Photo: LWF/C. Kästner

Mauritania: stability and income after fleeing war

“I want the best life for my children”

Humanitarian
News
29 Oct 2015
A woman tends a MARCOL training garden in Mberra camp, Mauritania. Thanks to the program Malian refugees produce more vegetables and the price of vegetables in the market has dropped. Photo: LWF/C. Kästner

World Food Day - Farming in the desert of Mauritania

LWF project helps Malian refugees increase food supplies

(LWI) – At the age of 42, Ali agd Forach has learned to farm the desert.

Humanitarian
News
15 Oct 2015
Fatou Haidana, 15 and paralyzed, has rejected numerous offers of marriage. A LWF sponsorship program is putting Fatou through school, enabling her to turn away suitors. Photo: LWF/C. Kästner

A girl is "not an item to be sold"

Sponsorship gives girls confidence to make own decisions

Churches
Humanitarian
Gender
News
12 Oct 2015

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