CLWR News & Events

Join us in Winnipeg on June 20 as we observe World Refugee Day

Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) has joined other leading Canadian organizations in an appeal to support over 2 million people affected by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

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 […]

This spring, we’re launching two new emergency responses as millions of families are affected by conflict and hunger in South Sudan and Central African Republic.

6-year-old Summer Meger of Kamloops, BC touched her family with her generosity last Christmas.

Maombi Babonye knows too well what it means when a young child is malnourished.  “Most of my fellow mothers have helplessly seen their children waste away and die because they cannot afford adequate food,” says the 29-year-old mother of 4, who has lived in a grass thatched temporary shelter in an internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp […]

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 […]

Members of her congregation were skeptical about helping bring an Iraqi family to Canada, says Rev. Tuula Van Gaasbeek. But when they agreed, they had no idea how their own lives would they be affected.

CLWR’s Back to School appeal will provide life-saving, ready-to-use therapeutic food and milk to children who need it to survive.

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

A new video produced by Canadian Foodgrains Bank, of which CLWR is a member, explains what food security is, and how it relates to ending global hunger.

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

Join CLWR for a complimentary breakfast on World Refugee Day. All welcome.

Five busted myths about refugees

Like so many Canadians, and others around the world, in the summer of 2015, members of St. Andrew’s Anglican/Zion Lutheran Church were touched by the plight of Syrians trying to flee the war in their home. 

Poem written by Pastor Nancy Kelly

Canadian Foodgrains Bank, of which Canadian Lutheran World Relief is a member, invites Canadians to join Christians around the world in a Global Day of Prayer to End Famine on June 10.

Make Room at the Table is a way for you to make a place at your table and connect with refugees—to invite them as guests and to share a meal with them. It is an opportunity to welcome the stranger into your home.

Seeking refuge in Sudan was the start of a life-changing experience for Freawet Mega, who is originally from Eritrea.

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.

You are invited to join CLWR for an evening of appreciation and farewell for Robert Granke.

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