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

Seeds and peace in Ethiopia
29 August 2017
Livelihoods project improves relations between refugees and hosts in Ethiopia. The refugees have changed the life of Mahmud Ismael Merdane (65), an Ethiopian farmer in Awbarre town, close to the Somali border.
Training to be tailors and barbers
17 August 2017
LWF livelihoods projects support long-term refugees in Ethiopia
Emergency Water trucking for IDPs in Kolleji , Somali Regional State
2 May 2017
There were around 3,500 HHS [ Internally Displaced People (IDPs)] settled at Kolleji kebele of Babile woreda in Somali reigonal state starting from January 2017. The IDPs were displaced due to conflict with neighbouring communities over resources due to ...
Concern about situation in South Sudan
15 December 2016
Atrocities and impending famine in war-torn country (LWI) – The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is urgently calling for more support to help the victims of the resurging civil war in South Sudan. Half a year after the broken peace agreement and violent ...
Connecting the local to the global at climate conference
10 November 2016
LWF Ethiopia brings perspectives from communities devastated by climate change (LWI) – Delegates from The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and other non-governmental organizations taking part in the United Nations (UN) climate conference in Morocco, shared ...
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LWF Youth Delegates Mobilize at COP22 Marrakech
7 November 2016
Marrakech, Morocco
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7 - 18 November, Marrakech, Morocco will be the scene of a concerted global effort to mobilize action on climate change. For the LWF, climate change is a question of justice, peace, the care for creation, and human rights. It is also a question of justice ...
Hope and stability
30 September 2016
Cash for work projects to help drought affected farmers in Ethiopia (LWI) – To see what climate change looks like, one only needs to talk to Ato Abebe Desale, a 46-year-old farmer and head of a household of seven people. He and his family live in the Amhara ...
Flooding and insecurity after drought
15 September 2016
More funding needed for recovery from El Nino in Ethiopia (LWI) - After a severe drought which brought ten million people to the brink of starvation, the returning seasonal rains have started irregularly. There is little rain in some parts of the country ...
Ethiopian church fosters peace and reconciliation in Gambella
7 July 2016
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia/GENEVA, 7 July 2016 (LWI) - Ongoing efforts by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) to diffuse tension and reconcile communities in the southwestern region of Gambella are paying off. The work of the EECMY Peace Office ...
The gift of water
1 April 2016
New irrigation schemes help Ethiopian farmers deal with climate change (LWI) - For Kassa Adane, 63, every day is a day to be grateful for the gift of water. The farmer in North Wollo, Ethiopia, and father of eight children is one of 94 participants in an ...
The Road to Mote
29 March 2016
In 1984, Adrienne Mornement was one of the nurses deployed with the LWF in the Ethiopian village of Mote during one of the worst famines the country had ever seen. Thirty years later her daughter, Hannah Mornement, travelled to Mote to see the progress made ...
Can we talk about climate change?
1 March 2016
After an intense two weeks of negotiations at the climate change summit in Paris a historic agreement was reached but for the people of Northern Ethiopia it is already too late. They are already experiencing the effects of El Niño, a global climate phenomenon ...
10 million Ethiopians need emergency aid
25 February 2016
LWF appeals for emergency assistance (LWI) – More than ten million people in Ethiopia need food assistance as the country faces the worst drought in 30 years. The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is supporting affected communities in several states in the ...
El Niño-induced drought threatens millions in Ethiopia
20 January 2016
THE CRISIS:  The current emerging food security crisis in Ethiopia is the result of a combination of factors that includes the pre-El Niño failure of the spring rains and the El Niño induced late onset, erratic and early cessation of the main summer rains.  ...
As the trees grow, the lives of refugees improve
14 August 2015
Teaching refugees to protect the earth not only results in a more pleasant camp environment, it enables participants to acquire skills that will last a lifetime, says LWF World Service in Ethiopia’s Tesfahun Abrham.   I have seen my share of suffering. ...
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