The Sustainable Development Goals: What Are They and Why Do They Matter?
A special summit at the UN General Assembly in New York beginning September 25 will approve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — 17 benchmarks to measure the progress achieved worldwide. Over...
View ArticleHow Your Support Makes Coffee Entrepreneurs in Haiti
This post is part of the ongoing LWR Blog series “My first LWR project visit,” in which LWR staff making first time field visits are invited to share their insights. We hope you enjoy their...
View ArticleWhat We’re Watching and Where We See Hope in 2016
If we have learned anything from living in our increasingly globalized world, it is that no community or no nation stands in isolation. For better or worse, we are all connected. This makes our...
View ArticleCongratulations to Gayle Smith, Administrator of USAID
On behalf of Lutheran World Relief, I would like to congratulate Gayle Smith on her confirmation as the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and we look forward to...
View ArticleHow Climate Change is Affecting Coffee Farmers
Climate change is a clear and present danger to coffee farmers in Central America, and Lutheran World Relief is working with farm families and cooperatives, helping them to cope, LWR’s Rick Peyser...
View ArticleLWR & the Global Goals: Climate Change
Your support of Lutheran World Relief contributes to the larger work of creating sustainable solutions to poverty around the world. This blog series on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seeks...
View ArticleLWR at the First World Humanitarian Summit: Committing to a More Effective...
Lutheran World Relief president & CEO Ambassador Daniel Speckhard is participating in the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, a high-level assembly called by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to...
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