We Care School Supply Drive

Photo courtesy of the ACT Allinace.

This year the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) established emergency preparedness hubs in Kenya and El Salvador to respond to regional crises, and CLWR has agreed to ship two containers of humanitarian aid for their programming. Along with quilts, hygiene and medical supplies which will be used for disaster relief, both centres have identified an ongoing need for quality school supplies for children.

At this time of year in Canada, school supplies are very abundant and can often be obtained at very reasonable costs. Access to pencils, paper and other supplies for students who have gone without makes an impact that cannot be overestimated. By creating a We Care Learning and Living Kit you have an opportunity make a real difference in the life of a young student and improve their quality of the education. When you order your We Care bags be sure to specify that you would like backpacks, which are ideal for students.

For supporters in Calgary, Edmonton and Milton (Ontario) we strongly recommend sending your goods free of charge through Arnold Bros. Transport. Click here for terminal addresses and contact information.

Children sit four or more to a desk and even on the floor in a classroom in a refugee camp at Dadaab, Kenya. (photo courtesy of LWF/ Melany Markham)

Our first shipment will be to Kenya early this fall. The LWF is presently laying the groundwork for their response to the South Sudanese refugee crisis, and access to humanitarian aid through CLWR will be vital. Over 200,000 people have fled the violence-plagued region and are in need of access to clean drinking water, food and shelter, as well as social and educational services for children. Our partners with LWF Kenya are also charged with managing the world’s largest refugee camp: Dabaab, which is home to nearly 500,000 Somali refugees.

Then, in the spring of 2013, the first ever CLWR shipment to El Salvador will be dispatched. Our partners there have requested 3,200 Learning and Living kits, which is a challenge we hope to meet over the Christmas season.

Your assistance is greatly needed, please consider making a We Care kit today.

Let's Get the Word Out

Overcoming great distances has always been a fundamental factor of participating in the We Care community. A new tool available on the CLWR website hopefully will bring the program’s impact a little closer to home. For those promoting the We Care program in their church and community a PowerPoint presentation (and accompanying script) is now available to download from the CLWR website. It offers a bit of CLWR history, a virtual tour of the Winnipeg warehouse and information on those who benefit from our humanitarian relief shipments. The We Care program is making a difference, let’s get the word out!

Great Turnout for First

Kitchener-Waterloo Baling Days

Team photo courtesy of Ruth Bechtel. Click here for more info and pictures of KW Baling Days.

August 20/21 Thanks to a lot of hard work and generosity, the inaugural KW Baling Days were a true success. Over two days dozens of volunteers gathered at the Mennonite Central Committee warehouse in Kitchener, Ontario, to sort, pack and load donations from the region’s Lutheran churches. In all, 27,801 lbs. of humanitarian aid were squeezed into a 20-foot container.

The supplies have begun their journey to our partners, the Federation Lutherienne Mondiale in Nouakchott, Mauritania. For the previous four years CLWR has delivered the BC Baling Days shipment to Mauritania (click here to see photos of its' distribution), and this new initiative in some ways represents a passing of the torch. Congratulations to everyone in the Kitchener-Waterloo region that made this event a success.

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