How is LWR maximizing its efforts so that resources do the greatest good for the greatest number of people?
To help provide immediate relief to rural communities, and set the stage for a long-term response, LWR is working with local Haitian organization Partenariat pour le Développement Local (Partnership for Local Development or PLD). To help ease the stress on rural communities, LWR and PLD will work together to distribute food to displaced people and establish community stores that will sell staples like beans, rice, and salt at reduced prices. These stores will allow people to buy food locally and will help stimulate local economies. In addition to LWR’s efforts, LWR is collaborating with Lutheran World Federation, Catholic Relief Services, International Orthodox Christian Charities, Church World Service, the United Nations Foundation, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Women of the ELCA, the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, World Neighbors and Action by Churches Together to deliver relief supplies and expertise where they are needed most.
