Humanitarian Assistance & Development

Your gifts provide life-saving aid in times of crisis – but you’re also changing lives in the long-term by empowering people whose lives have been disrupted by conflict, disaster and poverty. In communities around the world, there are creative, hard-working people who just needed the opportunity that you’re giving them! Khin Mar Htay was one of […]

When violence broke out in the state of Rhakine, Myanmar in 2012, the poorest state in one of the least developed countries in the world, hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes. Be Be Gyan and her family had to seek refuge in a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP) called […]

Karin Achtelstetter, CLWR’s Exeuctive Director, visits Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives.

Cheeta Hebram lost everything when the river near her home in Nepal flooded. You are helping her rebuild her life.

South Sudanese refugees living in two refugee settlements in northern Uganda will soon experience improved protection and safety, access to healthcare and employment opportunities.

Your support made it possible for Mohammed to receive life-saving chemotherapy treatment at Augusta Victoria Hospital.

Thanks to your support, South Sudanese refugees living in Uganda and people in the communities that are hosting them have improved access to water.

Your support is providing life-saving treatment to children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who are experiencing malnutrition.

CLWR’s annual report for 2016-17.

St. James Lutheran Church in Elmira, Ontario is hosting a benefit concert to raise funds to support those affected by Hurricane Irma in Haiti.

Gifts from the Heart are meaningful and tangible gifts that will share God’s love with the world.

Provide a child in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who is suffering from malnutrition with life-saving therapeutic food for one day.

The Humanitarian Coalition and its member agencies welcome the Government of Canada’s decision to launch the Myanmar Crisis Relief Fund for the response to the Rohingya Crisis.

CLWR believes that supporting the empowerment of rural women is a key strategy in achieving poverty reduction, economic growth and climate change resilience.

New opportunities for youth to gain valuable skills and earn an income.

CLWR, ELCIC and LCC partnership helps meet physical and psychosocial needs as Fort McMurray residents resettle and rebuild a year after wildfires.

Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) is accepting donations to respond to the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean.

For children and teachers in some areas of Jordan, challenging learning environments are a reality.

On World Humanitarian Day, we’d like to introduce you to Livingston Nabimanya, a Project Officer with our partner organization Lutheran World Federation Uganda.

With 20 million women, children and men struggling to find food and safe drinking water in parts of Africa and Yemen, Canadians donated more than $8 million to the Humanitarian Coalition and its member agencies during the “Stop Famine Together” joint campaign.

CLWR has been providing shelters for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda since 2015.

The Humanitarian Coalition and its seven member agencies welcome the Government of Canada announcement that for every eligible donation made by individual Canadians to registered Canadian charities between March 17 and June 30, 2017, it will contribute an equivalent amount to the Famine Relief Fund.

On December 15, 2016, the new project “Improved Learning Environments for Children in Irbid Governorate” launched in Amman, Jordan.

Every time I visit the Vocational Training Program (VTP) in Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem I am struck by the increased quality of the finished products being produced by the students.