West Virginia Flooding
Last week, a flash flood ravaged West Virginia, with at least 23 people confirmed dead, hundreds of homes severely damaged or destroyed and thousands of people left without power. Due to the nature of flash floods, there was little time...
World Refugee Week
Over 62 million persons have been displaced from their homes by violence, poverty, war, discrimination and marginalization, natural disaster and the effects of climate change. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has found that about 51% of refugees...
Follow us for World Refugee Day – June 20
World Refugee Day June 20, 2016 World Refugee Day is this Monday, June 20th. Lutheran Disaster Response will be taking this day, and all of next week to build awareness around global migration. ELCA Global Mission is already...
Double the Impact
+ The world is experiencing one of the highest concentration of disasters, in recent times. Various populations confront extreme child malnutrition, even starvation. More people are displaced now than ever before. Many communities face weeks, if not months of waiting...
World Humanitarian Summit
What happened? The first ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) took place last week. The summit was a global call to action with three main goals: To re-inspire and reinvigorate a commitment to humanity and to the universality of humanitarian principles. To...
Kumamoto Earthquake: Nobuo Inoue
On April 14, 6:25 pm local time, a 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Kumamoto, Japan. Another 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit Kumamoto only 2 days later. Over 1,000 aftershocks continued to shake the area between and after the 2 earthquakes. To date, there have...