Ethiopia
Advent 2022 – Hymn for 3 December from LWF World Service - Tigray

The #LWFAdvent calendar takes us to the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus - Mekelle

Advent 2022 – Hymn for 3 December from LWF World Service - Tigray
13 December 2022
The #LWFAdvent calendar takes us to the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus - Mekelle Congregation in Tigray performing "A Child was Born in Bethlehem." The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Makane Yesus's (EECMY) Diaconal arm DASSC, operates humanitarian ...
The Walrus Talks Global Hunger Crisis in Ottawa in October 2022.
1 November 2022
  Sophie Gebreyes is the Country Representative for the Lutheran World Federation in Ethiopia and she spoke at The Walrus Talks Global Hunger Crisis in Ottawa in October 2022. For more details please watch the video.
News on weather and current situation in Tigray
29 September 2022
  To see the news please click on the link below  https://www.ruv.is/sjonvarp/spila/frettir-kl-19-00/30762/9kjfsm/24-millj...
Annual Report 2021
13 September 2022
  The end of the year 2020 was a presage as to how the year 2021 was going to unfold with the eruption of the Tigray conflict in November 2020. The Tigray conflict and its spillover into Amhara and Afar Regional States as well as other crises meant that ...
WOMEN LEFT TO BEAR THE BRUNT OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR, AS MEN GO OFF TO THE FRONT
15 November 2021
The name Zenzelema has a nice ring to it and sounds like a happy place. Zenzelema kebele is a satellite kebele of the Amhara Regional capital of Bahr Dar, located on the eastern shore of Lake Tana, the largest lake in Ethiopia and where the Blue Nile River ...
Annual Report
10 November 2021
Dear colleagues and partners, 2020 has been an exceptional year for the entire world with the corona virus/COVID-19, started towards the end of 2019 and took the world by storm and declared a pandemic on March 11th, 2020. As this annual report goes to print, ...
ILO-LWF JOINT TVET TRAINING CENTRE FOR REFUGEES AND HOST COMMUNITIES IN KEBRIBEYAH UNDER THE PROSPECTS INITIATIVE.
6 September 2021
The objective of the joint LWF and ILO Kebribeyah TVET Training Centre project under the Prospects  Initiative is designed to provide vocational training opportunities in various trades including Finishing works, General Metal Fabrication and Aluminium works, ...
ILO - LWF: Vocational skills development – a path to self-reliance
23 July 2021
In the spirit of the Global Compact for Refugees, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Lutheran World Federation  (LWF) have joined hands to bring satellite vocational training services to the district of Kebribeyah, Somali Regional State ...
Two candidates for next LWF general secretary
2 June 2021
Election to take place on 19 June (LWI) - Candidates from Estonia and Zimbabwe have been proposed for the position of general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation. The search for a new leader of the communion of churches has been concluded and the LWF ...
Great solidarity, and even more needs
26 April 2021
Impressions from a visit to Mekelle, Tigray Food is the highest priority in the camps for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Mekelle. The number of those spontaneously set up camps has grown from 14 at the end of March to a total of 21 by mid-April with ...
"People are not starving, they are being starved”
20 April 2021
LWF joins interagency call to fight famine
Refugees journey to the Olympic Games
8 April 2021
LWF joins UNHCR call to support refugee athletes (LWI) - Leading up to the Olympic summer games in Tokyo, Japan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has released a video calling for support for the refugee teams in the Olympic and Paralympic ...
Lutheran World Federation
1 April 2021
  1st April 2021 LWF strongly supports the call by humanitarian INGOs for the protection of aid workers to ensure vital assistance reaches the people in need in #Ethiopia. Humanitarian aid workers are #not a target.
Celebrating International Women’s day 2021
11 March 2021
  Celebrating International Women’s day 2021 LWF-Ethiopia International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on the 8th of March every year around the world. LWF head office staff celebrated this day by discussing topics on what International Women’s ...
Ethiopia: Stories of flight and loss from Tigray
12 February 2021
LWF and partners to start humanitarian response (LWI) - From everyday life into chaos: For the people affected by the recent conflict in Ethiopia, life as they knew it ended abruptly with the military offensive in the Tigray region. Even before, many had ...
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