Lutheran World Relief (LWR) focuses on empowering people and breaking the cycle of poverty by addressing its root causes. LWR works in 35 countries worldwide, helping thousands through programs that provide emergency relief, support agriculture, ensure access to water, respond to climate disasters and health emergencies, and enable civic participation through education and literacy training. Donations to LWR can help provide tools and training for farming, emergency water filters, medicine for malaria, and education for AIDS orphans.

2. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli

3. How does lwr help ? Focusing on the Root Causes of Poverty Empowering People Breaking the Cycle

4. Water Emergencies Agriculture Climate Disasters Health Civic Participation

5. Agriculture $250 provides tools and training to maintain one acre of farm land

6. $35 sends an emergency water filter to a family coping with a disaster Emergency Relief

7. Civic Participation $45 provides literacy training for women to understand and exercise their rights

8. Health $1 can provide medicine to a child with Malaria

9. Education $20 Educates an AIDS orphan

10. Who does lwr Reach? 35 Countries World Wide Thousands of people in need

11. Kenya Niger Uganda Burkina Faso

12. Philippines Sri Lanka Nepal Indonesia

13. Tanzania Mali

14. India Palestine

15. Peru Nicaragua Honduras

16. Bolivia El Salvador Columbia Haiti

18. WWW.LWR.ORG It is time to LIVE! DonateToday

20. Credits Photos courtesy, Lutheran World Relief, Christopher DjCptTannis, and AdnanMirza Used with expressed permission “Roots” by AnyaLogic 2/1/2009 “World-Map” by Claudio Andres 6/25/2011 Music: “Somewhere Sunny” by Kevin MacLeod (imcompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribuition 3.0” http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"