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LWF Colombia 20 Years - Comité de Agua — A water committee encouraging their community on better clean water standards in Arauca. LWF has been working with some of the most disadvantaged and remote communities. Photo: LWF Colombia

Colombia: Twenty years of working for reconciliation

For twenty years, the LWF and its local member church has been working with the communities most affected by the armed conflict in Colombia. The program works on disaster risk reduction, livelihood support and advocacy for peace with rural and…

IDPs in Mekelle collecting water in Seba Kare IDP camp. LWF has constructed a water system in the camp, which was previously supplied with water by water trucking. Photo: LWF/ T. Debessu

Relief for Tigray despite renewed fighting

Renewed hostilities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and neighboring provinces have closed the humanitarian corridor established after a truce 5 months ago. As the security situation worsens, LWF staff continue to provide aid from the province capital…

Olga, from Odessa, working in the LWF multipurpose cash assistance center in Gdánsk. Photo: LWF/ B. Pachuta

"This job makes me feel needed”

LWF in Poland does not only work with local staff, but also employs refugees from in its centers.

Hanna and Olga with their children, in the LWF center in Gdansk. All photos: B. PACHUTA, LWF

Ukraine: You have to stand up, and move on

LWF cash centers help Ukrainian refugees settle in Poland

Constructing hurricane and earthquake resistant homes is part of LWF Haiti’s long-term recovery projects that compliment disaster risk reduction efforts. Photo: LWF Haiti

Haiti: preparing for a busy hurricane season

LWF equips communities with disaster risk reduction strategies

Church communicators talk audio — The LWF Global Communicators Network will host its third quarterly event, “Church communicators talk audio” on Thursday 18 August. Photo: flickr

Communicating faith through radio and podcasts

Church communicators from the Lutheran communion talk audio

AVH senior management — AVH senior management and ground management staff including: Dr Hani Abdeen, Badiah Bajali, Dr Yousef Hamamreh, Alex Kuttab, AVH CEO Dr Fadi Atrash, ELCJHL Bishop Sani-Ibrahim Azar and LWF Country Representative in Jerusalem Sieglinde Weinbrenner. Photo: AVH/Arine Rinawi

AVH: funds allow hospital to continue life-saving work

Augusta Victoria Hospital announces quality services can continue following recent U.S and E.U payments

Rokiya Begum and Rofiq Ahmed’s family — Rokiya Begum and Rofiq Ahmed’s family of eight is one of thousands of Rohingya families that fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar for safety and continue to need support. LWF World Service provides humanitarian and livelihood programs to assist displaced families. Photo: RDRS Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Living in displacement, the life of a Rohingya family

“We fled for our lives […] We now have shelter, clothes, food, cooking ingredients and all other things”

Soup kitchen for refugees from Ukraine — A woman serves food at a soup kitchen for refugees from Ukraine, at the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Six months in: Continued support needed for Ukraine

“Great hospitality and solidarity” by Lutheran churches

Bishop Karin Johannesson and Rev. James Hadley with the parish priests of Lampedusa — Bishop Karin Johannesson and Rev. James Hadley with the parish priests of Lampedusa, Fr Carmelo Rizzo and Fr Luca Camilleri. All photos: J Hadley and A Johannesson

Ecumenical witness to plight of Mediterranean migrants

Swedish Bishop Karin Johannesson visits Anglican and Catholic parishes on islands of Sicily and Lampedusa