Lutheran World Relief 

www.lwr.org

2021 LWR Challenge

Immanuel has been challenged by a member for the 5th year in a row to match a $5000 gift to LWR  during the month of October 2021! 

The funds will support LWR's COVID response  to end the COVID pandemic for everyone, everywhere.

Though many of us in the U.S. have begun to resume normal activities, the pandemic continues to affect poor and vulnerable communities who desperately need basics like food and water and an opportunity to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Will you reach out in love to help our neighbors? Our generosity will equip clinics to receive and store the vaccine; train health care workers to coordinate vaccination campaigns; and provide essentials for survival, including masks, clean water and emergency food assistance. Our love, through Lutheran World Relief, will help to ensure the largest global health effort in human history reaches the dusty camps, poorest slums and most remote villages… Until your love reaches every neighbor.

You can support this work of loving our neighbors through:

• A check made payable to Immanuel with LWR in the memo
• Stock donations
• Online giving  (LWR button)
• Purchasing coffee 

As a result of your generosity and support of this program we are happy to share the following update of the programs the match challenge has spported in the past:

• The Tanzanian Ministry of Agriculture Technical Institute curriculum has been revised ensuring that skills taught to students are relevant in the hiring market for agricultural jobs.
• 27 young adults were provided a one-month internship in critical agriculture fields that include dairy, poultry and horticulture. Transportation, housing and meals were included in the internship.
• Seven students translated their internship experiences into permanent job offers based on skills displayed during the internship.
• A Start Up Challenge Fund was initiated and grants were awarded to 13 individuals who presented their small business proposal. Venture ideas include the production of poultry, dairy, watermelon, tomatoes, fruit trees, and many other crops.

Lutheran World Relief plans to continue addressing underemployment and unemployment of youth in Tanzania by INVESTing in the next generation of agriculture specialists. Doing so will ensure that all aspects of their learning are as robust and well-funded and facilitated so that they have the knowledge and the skills to make economic contributions moving forward!