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Dweller Driven Roma Settlement Upgrading in Serbia

12 Oct 2016
From 2007, Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization (EHO), ACT member from Serbia, is successfully implementing sanitation and house up grading (Housing) projects in substandard Roma settlements in Serbia. Roma is the most [...]

Perfect Timing in Uganda

22 Sep 2016
When PWRDF announced on August 12 that it was sending $30,000 to support relief efforts for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda, we had no idea how timely our grant would [...]

Community World Service Asia celebrates 10 years of Quality and Accountability

31 Aug 2016
Since responding to the devastating earthquake in Kashmir in 2005, Community World Service Asia has assumed a leadership role among aid organizations in Asia and has initiated and supported the [...]

Run for peace and South Sudan

16 Aug 2016
(LWI) – Until a year ago, Rose Nathike Lokonyen, 23, barely knew the talent she had. She had never competed. Rose fled the war in South Sudan when she was [...]

Advocating against early marriage in South Sudan

16 Aug 2016
BUNJ, South Sudan/ GENEVA, 16 June 2016 (LWI) – “We, as her family see it as something good, but according to our society, she has rebelled,” Juma Leheme says. He [...]

Protecting Earth and identity

16 Aug 2016
(LWI) – If anyone knows about bureaucracy in Guatemala, it would be Francisco Siguic (65). He has been trying to get a land title for more than 40 years. Siguic, [...]

LWF joins call to uphold the rights of refugees

16 Aug 2016
(LWI) – ACT member The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) urging the Kenyan government to reconsider its intention to both close refugee camps in the country [...]

Nowhere to go

16 Aug 2016
(LWI) – “If gold mining was no longer possible, I would have to leave,” says Orlinda Romaña, 38, a single mother with seven children who has worked in artisanal mining since she [...]

Displaced by climate change

05 Aug 2016
(LWI) – “The stories aren’t true,” Rigoberto Monge, 44, says. “You only get a job when you are lucky.” Rigoberto has been to the United States and back. Now he [...]

100,000 euros to emergency humanitarian assistance in South Sudan

05 Aug 2016
ACT Alliance member Finn Church Aid (FCA) begins humanitarian assistance in South Sudan’s capital Juba, where fighting broke out again last weekend. The 100,000 euros appropriated from FCA’s disaster fund [...]
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