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Mercy Medical Team Leader on Deadly but Preventable Disease

In this KFUO radio interview, LCMS World Relief and Human Care’s Jacob Fiene discusses the cholera outbreak in Haiti, a grant to help fight the preventable disease and the need for continued donor support. Fiene just returned from serving with a nine-person Mercy Medical Team at a new clinic in rural Poto opened by WR-HC [...]

Making Positive Steps in Haiti

Ten months after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, news stories report how little has changed, including that more than 1 million survivors remain homeless and that none of the U.S. government’s pledged $1.15 billion in aid has arrived in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. But amid huge challenges that include a recent cholera outbreak, [...]

Grant Fights Cholera in Haiti

To help fight the spread of deadly cholera, LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC) awarded a $5,000 grant to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti (ELCH) to buy urgently needed sanitation supplies and bottled water. The grant followed an urgent request from ELCH President Rev. Marky Kessa and was issued one day after a [...]

Grants Aid Tornado-Damaged Churches

LCMS World Relief and Human Care (WR-HC) approved a $4,000 grant Oct. 5 to aid two LCMS Atlantic District churches with schools that suffered tornado damages. On Sept. 16, two rare tornadoes struck parts of Brooklyn and Queens. The windows of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Rego Park were blown out, a shed was lifted [...]