A focus on the most vulnerable
World Service supports refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) who, for a shorter or longer period, are unable to return to their homes.
We work with returnees, helping them to settle back into their original contexts, and also with host communities and local governments who are receiving displaced people or returnees.
We work with communities at risk, specifically those vulnerable to natural disasters or who lose large numbers of community members due to migration.
We seek to prevent the effects of poverty and injustice by building long-term resilience.
World Service’s work is guided by LWF’s vision of a just, peaceful, and reconciled world, liberated by God’s grace.
![Leadership staff from Lutheran World Federation World Service country programs are meeting with the Communion Office colleagues in Geneva, 10 May 2019. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert Leadership staff from Lutheran World Federation World Service country programs are meeting with the Communion Office colleagues in Geneva, 10 May 2019. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert](/sites/default/files/styles/ino_plain_1x_xs/public/2024-03/About.png.webp?itok=8_lsYfjC)
Staff from LWF World Service country programs. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert
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