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Image A group of Oromo IDPs walk on the dry riverbed near Burka Dare IDP site in Ethiopia. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communitiesâ lifestyles to a changing climate. 27 January 2019. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert Ethiopia: Creativity in the face of hardship LWF supports people displaced internally by extreme climate and conflict (LWI) - At the Burka Dare site for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Ethiopia’s Oromia Region, Halima Ismael explains why she left her home in the neighboring…
Image Participants in the womenâs self-help group Tesfa (âhopeâ) gather for the day. All photos: LWF/Albin Hillert Ethiopian church empowers communities to thrive on their own EECMY social services reach 3 million people across Ethiopia (LWI) - A century of service is bearing fruit, as The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY…
Image Rigoberto and his family with an image of their son, who was kidnapped on the migration route to the US. Photo: LWF/C. Kästner Displaced by climate change (LWI) – “The stories aren’t true,” Rigoberto Monge, 44, says. “You only get a job when you are lucky.” Rigoberto has been to the United States and back. Now he sits in the yard of his home in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, maybe 50 meters from…
