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 [...]
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Every day, in every city and village around the world, news is happening. The news may not always hit CNN, FOX News, or the New York Times, but that doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly important. Or it may hit those major news outlets, but it’s buried back on page seven, where few people give more [...]
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The following was originally posted by Pastor Clint Schnekloth at Lutheran Confessions: The longest running Lutheran blog in North America. I was honored recently when Lutheran World Relief asked to see if I’d be willing to be a guest blogger on their blog (blog.lwr.org). They plan to post a series of short blog posts that look at the [...]
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Today is the second anniversary of the massive earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It was a major humanitarian emergency that devastated an already fragile country. A lot has happened since then, and LWR continues the work it began long before the earthquake struck. Our emergency relief efforts — like distributing Personal Care Kits — continue [...]


