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LWF Honduras representative Carlos Rivera (with white face mask) visits ChamelecÃ³n, Honduras, to see the damage done by hurricanes Eta and Iota. As the flooding came unexpectedly fast, many people lost all their belongings. Photo: Sean Hawkey

“It will take years to recover”

Honduras after the hurricanes

I’ve worked in Honduras over many years since the late 90s, working in emergency response and as a photojournalist. Recently I went to visit some of the areas that were worst hit by the double hurricanes in…

Rev Robert Goyek Daga, in front of the millennium Cathedral that his church is building in the center of Garoua town. Photo: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

Diakonia and dialogue for peace

Lutherans in Cameroon face Boko Haram terror and climate change

(LWI) - Members of the Church of the Lutheran Brethren of Cameroon live under the threat of Boko Haram…

ULS students wait in line to receive the LWF food kits, which contained enough or a household of 4 or five people to last about 3 weeks. Photo: LWF/ Z. Urbina

El Salvador: LWF supports students affected by cyclone “Amanda”

LWF food aid a life line after double disaster hits Central America

(LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Program in Central America supported scholarship students of the Salvadoran Lutheran University with food and hygiene kits, to…

LWF distributed mosquito nets to more than 12,000 households in two camps in Cox'âs Bazaar refugee camp. The nets will protect especially small children against diseases such as Dengue fever and Malaria. Photo: Bela Wadud/ RDRS/LREP

LWF supports displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh

Livelihood support and protection against diseases

(LWI) - In October 2017, violence in Myanmar forced over 700,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. They found a temporary home in Cox’s Bazaar refugee camp, one of the largest…