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Women wash glasses to preserve vegetables in. Photo: LWF/ P. Lo Moro

“Blue flowers” in the desert

LWF Regional Program Coordinator Pablo Lo Moro shares impressions from the Country Program in Mauritania

The moment the plane of UN Humanitarian Air Services (UNHAS) landed in Bassikounou — a once sleepy Mauritanian outpost deep into the…

Houses in Chernihiv, Ukraine — Houses in Chernihiv, as seen by the LWF assessment team. Photo: LWF/J.Pfattner

Ukraine: LWF team visits towns north of Kyiv

“The most vulnerable stayed behind”

Mauritanians receiving the notification of their changed status at Mbera refugee camp. Photo: LWF Mauritania

LWF to Take Over Camp Management of Mbera, Mauritania

“Sign of Continued Confidence and Appreciation”

(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) country program in Mauritania will be responsible for camp management of the Mbera refugee camp in 2015. “This is a sign of continued confidence…

Fatou Haidana, 15 and paralyzed, has rejected numerous offers of marriage. A LWF sponsorship program is putting Fatou through school, enabling her to turn away suitors. Photo: LWF/C. KÃ¤stner

A girl is "not an item to be sold"

Sponsorship gives girls confidence to make own decisions

(LWI) - The first man who proposed marriage to Fatou Haidana had seen her at the market. He followed her home and asked for her hand. Her mother declined. The second was a Marabout…

A woman tends a MARCOL training garden in Mberra camp, Mauritania. Thanks to the program Malian refugees produce more vegetables and the price of vegetables in the market has dropped. Photo: LWF/C. KÃ¤stner

World Food Day - Farming in the desert of Mauritania

LWF project helps Malian refugees increase food supplies

(LWI) – At the age of 42, Ali agd Forach has learned to farm the desert.

From neighboring Mali, Forach is one of 52,000 refugees who fled conflict in his home country and has…

Armed with tailoring skills taught by the LWF, Congolese refugee Bolozi Nzenze Budiaki has the chance to support her family in new home, Mauritania. Photo: LWF/C. KÃ¤stner

Mauritania: stability and income after fleeing war

“I want the best life for my children”

"We were just looking for peace,” says Bolozi Nzenze Budiaki, as if apologizing for the fact that she is now sitting in a tent and relyies on development aid in a country which is not her home.

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