Archive for February, 2010
A Day of Mourning
Posted on 13. Feb, 2010 by Emily Sollie.
More from Emily Sollie and LWR’s assessment team in Haiti. A woman cradles her baby at their home in the largest tent encampment for earthquake-affected people in Jacmel, Haiti. The camp houses about 4,000 Haitians on the site of a soccer field, a situation which will become unviable as the rainy season begins at the [...]
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Creating a Home
Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Emily Sollie.
More from Emily Sollie and LWR’s assessment team in Haiti. Two residents walk through a tent community set up by Diakonie in downtown Jacmel. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst for LWR) Feb. 11 – Today we visited with one of LWR’s sister organizations in the ACT alliance, Diakonie. ACT is a global alliance of Christian aid agencies; Diakonie [...]
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Haiti: Observations on the Ground
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Emily Sollie.
Emily Sollie, LWR’s director for communications, arrived in Haiti Tuesday as part of a 3-person LWR team, and offers these initial observations. Our LWR team arrived in Haiti this week, to observe and assess the situation one month after the devastating earthquake and lay the groundwork for a long term response. Currently we are in [...]
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Home Goods – Burkina Faso Style
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
Lisa Bonds blogging from Burkina Faso: A home goods store – the Burkina Faso version of Home Depot. How would you buy tools for your lawn and garden if you couldn’t go to Target, Fleet Farm or the local hardware store? Where would you get what you needed to make home repairs or to [...]
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Breaking Barriers with He Qi
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
A He Qi piece at Concordia Seminary. The gift of ethnic identity can easily become the scandal of racism when any one group of people imprisons a belief only within their own language, or confines the confession of faith only to their [...]
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The Difference is clear: No nets = more malaria. Nets = less malaria.
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
Lisa Bonds from Burkina Faso. You might have noticed that LWR has started to mention a lot more about malaria. Why? Certainly not because we just found out about malaria and certainly not because it is a new problem. Malaria is a very old problem, and it is a preventable and curable disease that affects [...]
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Betts Celebrated
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
Kirk Betts and me at Kirk’s recognition dinner. Quite fittingly, the board of directors of Lutheran World Relief took the occasion of their recent board dinner to shower recognition upon Kirk Howard Betts and show their appreciation for him as the outgoing chair of the LWR directors. [...]
