CLWR News & Stories

In Ethiopia millions of people are displaced due to conflict. Our partners are working closely with communities and local authorities to do everything they can to prevent a widespread outbreak in temporary settlements and save lives,

How we’re adapting with your support While we respond directly to the threat of COVID-19 around the world, we’re also working with our partners to make sure critical ongoing aid projects can continue. Here are some examples of how your support is allowing our partners to adapt and make sure these vital programs aren’t interrupted.   Jordan […]

This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating rural women!

In Ethiopia, we’re working with rural communities to make small-scale farming more sustainable — and women farmers taking the lead.

As violence continues to escalate in northwest Syria, 10 Canadian aid agencies are warning that the number of people displaced could reach one million by next week unless immediate action is taken.

This Advent, give hope back to families who have lost everything because of war, violence, disasters and drought.

Your Gifts from the Heart will help share hope and change lives around the world! Find out how you can start choosing gifts today.

Join us as we celebrate the impact your support is having around the world! 

Hisham al-Miqdad’s childhood was shattered when war came to Syria. But today, things are different. Hisham’s life has changed, and he’s using some little paper shapes to do the same for others. But he needs your help.

As students in Canada prepare to head back to school this fall, we want you to be inspired by Hisham’s story and then ask yourself whether you can give another child the same chance Hisham got — the chance to learn in a safe, supportive environment.

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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.