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Bringing water and life to the Turkana people at Nakururum and Lokwamur in Kenya. #WorldWaterDay Photo: ALWS / H. Wikstrom

When water comes to life

Australian Lutheran World Service Community Action Manager Jonathan Krause reflects on the importance of providing clean water

Here in Australia, we know how to “do” weather. Our northern parts sometimes receive a year’s rainfall in a…

"If we ever get out of here."

Follow the lives of three refugees in the Kakuma refugee camp, northwest Kenya, in this documentary by the Church of Sweden, If we ever get out of here. What have they fled? What…

Panel discussion on rights of refugees in protracted situations. Photo: LWF/C. KÃ¤stner

Refugee rights in protracted situations

LWF panel discusses rights of refugees in protracted East African crises

GENEVA, 28 September 2016 (LWI) – Protracted refugee situations confront humanitarian actors with additional demands, above and beyond immediate emergency relief.…

Genet Girma Eshete of Ethiopia talks to another particpant during the LWF Diakonia and HRM workshop in Nairobi. Photo: LWF/Afram Pete

Expressing God’s love through serving the neighbor

LWF human resource management training for churches in Central and East Africa

At a recent workshop focusing on empowerment, transformation and innovative ways of carrying out diaconal work, participants from LWF member churches in…

A girl from Somalia studies in an LWF primary school, Ali Addeh camp, Djibouti. LWF strongly advocated for girlâs education and against early marriage. Photo: LWF/ HelÃ©ne WikstrÃ¶m

“Education is light, ignorance is darkness”

Refugees speak about the importance of education for girls

“Education is light, ignorance is darkness,” says Fatuma Aden Siyad. If this would be be applied literally, the young woman from Somalia lived in darkness for the first eleven…

A group of women participants at MLCâs jubilee. Photo: MLC

Precious in God’s Eyes

16 days of activism to overcome gender based violence

(LWI) The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is encouraging church leaders to speak up publicly against gender-based violence. Joining the…

KELC South Coast Church District Gender Justice public participation forum in Mombasa, Kenya. Photo: L. Mwololo

Kenya moving towards gender equality in church and society

KELC promotes theological foundations for gender justice

(LWI) - Rev. Catherine Ngina Musau, head of the Gender Justice Program in the Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church (KELC…

Refugees at Nadapal transit centre close to the South Sudanese border. Photo: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

Refugees living in Kenya speak up at UN

LWF delegation brings refugee voices to UPR pre-session

(LWI) - Let refugees speak for themselves on the policy level – with this message an LWF delegation of refugees and civil society attended the pre-session of the…