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World Humanitarian Day: maintaining hope, in times of crisis

Talk about the mental health of aid workers, LWF World Service director says

World Humanitarian Day: maintaining hope, in times of crisis

19 August 2020

Talk about the mental health of aid workers, LWF World Service director says (LWI) - “In the past months, we have seen cases of stress, anxiety and burn-out among our staff.” Maria Immonen, director of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) humanitarian ...

Taking leadership #WithRefugees

20 June 2019

Churches engage in service, support empowerment (LWI) - All over the world, churches are making a difference for people on the move. They provide shelter, food and water, give psychosocial support, and help to build relations with host communities. So what’s ...

LWF assists refugees returning to Somalia

20 February 2018

Skills enable young refugees to start a new life in back home (LWI) - A protracted refugee situation in Dadaab, Kenya, means, that many young people are born in the camp or grow up there. As adults, they are encouraged to return to a country they have little ...

Building a future with hope

2 June 2017

25 years of LWF’s refugee support at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya Few among those fleeing northeast African conflicts to seek refuge in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya 25 years ago could have imagined what is now a city would still be here ...

LWF helps teenage mothers finish high school

14 February 2017

Combining education and protection for girls in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya (LWI) – It’s the beginning of a new year for Anek (16, name changed), a South Sudanese refugee in Kakuma refugee camp. As one of 4,000 secondary school students in the camp, 900 ...

Preparing young refugees for a return to Somalia

6 January 2017

Initiative links refugee skills in Kenya to employment offers in Mogadishu DADAAB, Kenya/ GENEVA, 6 January 2017 (LWI) - For Kadar Ali Ahmed, not even the sky is the limit. The 27-year-old was born in Somalia and became a refugee at the age of 14. For half ...

When normal life ends

27 July 2016

Jonathan Krause, fundraising officer at Australian Lutheran World Service, met refugees from Yemen in Djibouti’s Ali Addeh refugee camp whose lives have been changed forever. “When I arrived I was crying most of the time, just sitting there, doing ...

"If we ever get out of here."

21 March 2016

Top marks for girl student in Kakuma refugee camp

12 January 2016

(LWI) - The dust has finally settled and top performing Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) class of 2015 candidates have had a week celebrating their achievements. Some are even gracing national TV stations to tell the whole world what it took for ...