Lutheran Disaster Response

From Oct. 7 – 14, 2014, Cyclone Hudhud caused extensive damage to India and claimed lives. With 109 mph winds, the cyclone affected 320 villages in India. More than 41,530 homes and 40,000 electric poles were damaged, while more than...

Megan Brandsrud ​Advent: Peace Gorgya Paols receives a food voucher that provides her a carton of food that will last for one month. Gorgya Paols, 63, has only one wish in this season of wishes – peace in her home...

​Advent: Peace Gorgya Paols receives a food voucher that provides her a carton of food that will last for one month. Gorgya Paols, 63, has only one wish in this season of wishes – peace in her home country, Iraq....

Megan Brandsrud ​ (Pictured: Bernardo Anastasio Hernández, a cattle farmer, stands on the dry river bed of the Río Grande at San Francisco Libre in Nicaragua. Drought is affecting large areas of Central America, where hundreds of cattle are dying,...

Cattle have died and crops have been completely diminished in a drought across Central America that is recorded as the region’s worst dry period in the last 30 years. The drought has impacted more than 2.5 million people across the...

Megan Brandsrud ​ While news of children and families migrating to the U.S. from Central America may have slipped from national headlines, Lutheran Disaster Response is still at work providing education on the situation and assisting our partners and affiliates...