CLWR News & Stories

Grow Hope–Share the Harvest invites you to a complimentary BBQ.

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.

The CLWR Sunday 2017 theme is Our Common Humanity, which highlights our commonality as God’s children as we seek out ways we can work towards a world where people live in justice, peace and dignity.

We’re hiring a Program Manager and an IT Specialist

Canadian Lutheran World Relief is pleased to invite you to Mission Potluck, a musical play performed by One Trunk Theatre and sponsored by, and in support of, CLWR. The play focuses on “a motley crew of Lutheran Ladies and their hilariously ill-fated fundraising schemes.” An opportunity will be provided to support CLWR’s work during intermission.

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.

From where I lay in my tent, I heard the chirps of the vibrantly blue-coloured birds, signaling that it was time to get up if I wanted to watch the sunrise. Never in my wildest dreams had I imagined I would be lucky enough to see the sunrise and sunset in Ethiopia and to have had a wealth of new experiences between those two spectacular moments each day.

To help meet the nutritional needs of internally displaced people in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) is launching a two-year project in April 2017.

We are pleased to share with you our Annual Report for 2015-16.

A desire to support their global neighbours was the inspiration for Glen and Michele Erlandson to help start the River Plains Growing Project.

On World Water Day, you can help small-scale farmers in Ethiopia and elsewhere to increase their access to water and grow more food for themselves and their families.

Marcus Busch, President of the Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) Board of Directors, wishes to inform CLWR staff, board and partners today of a pending leadership transition for CLWR in 2018.

Berzegen Yimam is a participant in a project in northern Ethiopia that’s designed to help small-scale farmers increase their food production.

We all know farming is important. Agriculture provides us with food to keep us healthy and productive, and contributes to our economic health as communities and as a country. Support for agriculture in developing countries is also one of the best ways to alleviate hunger.

International Development Week celebrates Canadian contributions to poverty reduction in the developing world and engages Canadians to learn about those efforts

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

Join Canadian Lutheran World Relief and experience first-hand the religious, cultural, social and political context of Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian West Bank.

Merry Christmas from the staff of Canadian Lutheran World Relief!

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.

Thirty years ago, three congregations in Winnipeg’s North End worked together to sponsor an Eritrean mother and daughter.

Today is Giving Tuesday—a day where charities, companies and individuals join together to share commitments, rally for favourite causes and think about others.

Government of Canada announces renewed funding of $125 million to Canadian Foodgrains Bank over five years to provide food for people affected by humanitarian crises.