This week in the world of nonprofits, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure controversy has dominated news coverage. Even just reading new donor reviews at GreatNonprofits.org gives quite the insight into the debate. (Shameless plug: while you’re at GreatNonprofits.org, why not write a great review for Lutheran World Relief?) In other news, here are [...]
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Sochele Banou knows the kind of pain that no parent should ever experience: the pain of watching her child die. Her son Aly, just 3 years old, died of malaria in 2004. “I didn’t know quickly enough that he had it,” Sochele says. “I tried everything I knew to do but he kept getting worse [...]
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I’m not exactly sure what inspired this, but I’ve been thinking a lot about Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer lately. What would have been his 106th birthday is coming up this Saturday (February 4, 1906), but I didn’t even realize that until I looked it up. In his famous book Discipleship, he distinguishes between [...]
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Another week has come and gone, with some news making the front page and even more stuck in the middle. Here are this week’s stories, excavated from page 7A: Tales of Joy: American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) tells the story of distributing LWR Mission Quilts to refugees in Jordan. Reflections on HIV/AIDS: Dr. Christoph [...]
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Originally published on Impatient Optimists, blog of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. My job is to learn about global health and development—and to travel to poor countries to meet farmers who can’t grow enough food, mothers who can’t keep children healthy, and heroes in the field who are doing something about those emergencies. Very [...]
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…Jeann Llanor from the Philippines. She recently gave birth to a baby prematurely amid the chaos of Tropical Storm Washi, a powerfully destructive storm that hit the Philippine island of Mindanao in December. She lives in Cagayan de Oro, a city hard hit by the storm that has affected a total of more than a [...]
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Lutheran World Relief Provides Critically Needed Water in the Philippines
Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by Lutheran World Relief.
This news release was issued in response to the December typhoon that went through the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Read more about our response » Baltimore, January 23, 2012 – Lutheran World Relief is providing emergency water services to families who still have no access to clean drinking water more than a month [...]
