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LWF General Secretary Martin Junge with farmers in a Seeds for Solutions garden in Eastern Chad. Photo: LWF/A. Danielsson

Seeds for Solutions: refugees and host communities working together

LWF Chad program helps farmers reap tons of fresh produce from bare farmland

(LWI) – During his visit to Chad last week, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge met refugee and host community members…

LWF General Secretary Junge met with the chief of Koutoufou village Adam Younouss, who provided the Seeds for Solutions project with land on which refugees from the Djabal camp and villagers from Koutoufou jointly farm. Photo: LWF/A. Danielsson

Together we achieve more

General Secretary Junge meets UN High Commissioner for Refugees, LWF partners and government officials in Chad

(LWI) – Collaboration is a key element in serving the people of Chad, Rev. Dr Martin Junge said during a visit there last week…

Staff of LWF Chad praised for competence and commitment. Photo: LWF/A. Danielsson

Professional and passionate service to the neighbor

LWF General Secretary thanks LWF staff in Chad for their inspiring work

(LWI) – During his visit to the LWF Country Program in Chad last week LWF General Secretary Martin Junge met LWF staff in N’Djamena, Goz Beida in Eeastern Chad and…

Kader Ali Ahmed in Hagadera, a part of the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Photo: LWF Kenya

Preparing young refugees for a return to Somalia

Initiative links refugee skills in Kenya to employment offers in Mogadishu

DADAAB, Kenya/ GENEVA, 6 January 2017 (LWI) - For Kadar Ali Ahmed, not even the sky is the limit.

The 27-year-old was born in Somalia and became a refugee at…

Girls assemble in a school yard in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya. Education is a focus of LWF work in the camp. Photo: LWF/Kenya

Transforming lives of refugee children

The challenge of providing primary education for all in Dadaab refugee camps

(LWI) - If she had the nationality of the country in which she lives, Sowdo Mohamed Kilas, 18, would have been admitted to one of the best secondary schools in…

The ChicuÃ© River, in northwestern Colombiaâs ChocÃ³ district, along which the LWF provides humanitarian assistance. Photo: Church of Sweden/TherÃ©se Naomi Jonsson

Learning to farm more efficiently in Colombia's insecure Chocó district

“LWF has taught us to farm more nutritious crops"

Along the Chicué River, in northwestern Colombia’s Chocó district, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) provides humanitarian support to indigenous communities.

Like other communities…

Tashi Tamang working on a house in Ramche. The training by LWF and Islamic Relief taught him how to construct quake-proof houses in the Himalaya region. Photo: LWF/ R. Sedhai

Ninety masons trained to rebuild in rural Nepal

LWF and Islamic Relief Worldwide train builders in quake-proof construction

(LWI) - Tashi Tamang is busy. The 30-year-old mason from Ramche in Nepal’s central Rasuwa district has just finished the two-storey building of Seti Bhume High…

South Sudanese refugees in the new camp of Palorinya. The camp currently has 37,000 inhabitants, all of whom have arrived in the past weeks. Photo: LWF Uganda

Humanitarian crisis in northern Uganda worsens

Thousands flee civil war in South Sudan every week

MOYO, Uganda/GENEVA, 16 January 2016 (LWI) - The peak is over, but the numbers are still overwhelming: about 700 refugees arrive in the LWF transit center in Lefori, Uganda, every day.…

An indigenous ceremony in Guatemala, honouring the earth and creation. Respect for the environment runs deep in the indigenous communities of Guatemala, many of whom now see their traditional way of life threatened by infrastructure projects. Photo: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

Guatemala Lutherans speak out against killing of human rights activist

Indigenous communities “most affected when defending their way of life”

(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation Central America Program, together with the Guatemala Lutheran Church (Iglesia Luterana Guatemalteca, ILUGUA), an LWF member…

Children in one of the Nget Chaung-2 school rooms. These temporary classrooms constructed by LWF are the only school they are currently able to attend. Photo: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

Education for Muslim children in Myanmar

LWF supports communities with schools, teacher training and student kits

(LWI) - The noise of 150 primary school children in one room is deafening. In colourful clothes they sit on the floor of a “Temporary Learning Space” (TLS) in Nget…