Baltimore, August 15, 2006 - Thanks to a $20,000 gift from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) under the Stand with Africa Campaign, Lutheran World Relief is helping provide vital...
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Power, water to be back on tap at war-ravaged Liberian hospital
Baltimore, March 25, 2004 -- A heavily looted church hospital for 700,000 people in central Liberia will have electricity and water supplies again thanks to a grant secured by Lutheran World Relief...
In Liberia: 'Last minute' looters mar prospects as peacekeepers and aid workers slowly gain ground
Baltimore, September 10, 2003 --- Forces behind the recent chaos still hold sway in much of Liberia as aid workers and peacekeepers make progress in the capital city and mount convoys into the...
Despite aid distribution, all is far from well in Liberia
Baltimore, August 25, 2003 -- Reports from Monrovia continue to describe an improving situation in Liberia's capital, including the beginning of the distribution of 132 tons of material resources...
Liberia: Tenuous times at LWR-supported Phebe Hospital during LURD occupation
Baltimore, August 12, 2003 -- In an impassioned letter to the U.S. ambassador in Monrovia, John William Blaney III, William E. Martin, the administrator of Phebe Hospital and School of Nursing...
Calm in Monrovia aids LWR relief efforts
Baltimore, August 6, 2003 -- In the calm that has settled over Monrovia for the last 36 hours, there's a feeling of impending doom. "For the record," says Charles Pitchford, Representative from...
Crisis in Liberia
Baltimore, July 30, 2003 -- Lutheran World Relief is supporting emergency life-saving assistance in Liberia for people displaced by violence. $1.3 million-worth of new aid from LWR is safe and ready...
Liberia: No time to be in Monrovia, but new aid arrives safely
Baltimore, July 22, 2003 -- With danger high in Monrovia, Liberia, and civilian casualties there mounting, Lutheran World Federation staff and their families are seeking shelter and are prepared to...
Stabilization force, plus more aid, needed now in Liberia
Baltimore, July 2, 2003 - As yet another truce settles on Monrovia, Liberia, Lutheran leaders there are calling urgently for peacekeepers and humanitarian relief from the outside world. "We intend to...
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Aid for refugees and communities in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Baltimore, May 1, 2003 -- While peace is progressing in Sierra Leone, Liberia is experiencing a resurgence of violence. Since 1991, the West Africa republic of Sierra Leone has experienced one of...
Service resuming at LWR partner hospital in Liberia that was attacked and sacked last month
Baltimore, June 12, 2002 - Phebe Hospital in Gbarnga, Liberia, looted in a serious outbreak of violence last month, is returning to service. The hospital, founded by Lutheran missionaries in 1921 and...
Correction: Liberian hospital damage not as bad as reported
Baltimore, May 30, 2002 - After fighting caused the evacuation of Phebe Hospital in Liberia earlier this month, LWR reported the director's initial assessment of extensive damage and looting...
LWR partner hospital attacked and looted in Liberia; patients and staff safe
Baltimore, May 13, 2002 - Phebe Hospital and School of Nursing, regarded by many as the brightest ray of hope for Liberia's future, has been attacked and looted in one of the worst outbreaks of...
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LWR response to allegations of misconduct against refugees in West Africa
Baltimore, February 28, 2002 -- Lutheran World Relief is deeply concerned about the safety of refugees and the displaced, especially women and children in West Africa who are the subject of a report...
Emergency aid needed for Liberians fleeing fighting
Baltimore, February 13, 2002 -- In Liberia, thousands of people have fled renewed fighting days between government forces and rebel soldiers in recent days. The conflict has now spread to areas near...
Health Services Will Continue in Liberia
New York, April 17, 1998 -- For the next four months, two Lutheran hospitals in rural Liberia will be able to continue much-needed programs thanks to a $127,000 U.S. government grant to Lutheran...
Amid Hopeful Signs, A Health Care Boost for Rural Liberia
New York, August 15, 1997 -- In Liberia, seven years of civil war have shattered lives and communities. Up to half the Liberian population is still displaced. The country's health sector, long an...
Make Liberia's Peace "Irreversible," Say Aid Agencies
New York, March 21, 1997 -- Fourteen aid agencies that work in Liberia are urging President Clinton to make the peace process in that country "irreversible." In a March 4th letter, Lutheran World...
Seed Banks: A Sign that War is Over
Liberia's five-year civil war has taken its toll on farming practices, so the focus of a recent Lutheran World Relief program there was pay-back and storage of seed grain. At harvest time in Bong and...
Parish Projects Reach Some 52,000 Liberians
New York, January 29, 1997 -- "The need for continued humanitarian assistance to innocent victims of the nearly seven year Liberian civil war cannot be over-emphasized," according to Edward T...