Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and Love your neighbour as yourself. Luke 10:27.

‘Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all

your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbour

as yourself.’Luke 10:27

Australian Lutheran World Service is the overseas aid and

resettlement agency of the Lutheran Church of Australia.

Through God’s love, ALWS helps poor and oppressed people:

• Get back on their feet again;

• Find fresh hope;• Discover dignity

and respect in their lives.

ALWS – Reaching out in love for justice

For overseas aid, ALWS works mainly in eight countries–Sudan–Cambodia–Nepal–Mozambique–Papua New Guinea–Kenya– Indonesia–Burundi

ALWS – Reaching out in love for justice

ALWS sometimes helps refugees in crisis – short term assistance for those in desperate need in some of the poorest countries of the world.

ALWS more often helps in the long-term sustainable development of rural communities in poor countries.

Sustainable development is a process that empowers people in poor communities to

ultimately help themselves.

ALWS – Reaching out in love for justice

Primarily, ALWS programs focus on empowerment and development through:– Food security (teaching how to grow a variety

of food crops all year round)– Water availability (the building of water posts,

wells, or dams)– Income generation (finding ways for the very

poor to make a living)– Advocacy (standing up for what is right and

just)

ALWS – Reaching out in love for justice

ALWS work with local people, using local resources wherever possible.This helps:

– To teach local people – To give opportunities to people– To improve the economy of the region– Keep the culture strong

CambodiaCambodia is a country that was

destroyed in may ways over thirty years ago during the Khmer Rouge

rule. They are still trying to get back on their feet and combat

desperate poverty.

ALWS work with some of the poorest rural communities in long-

term development. They are trying to get food and water into communities, and make options available for employment. They

are teaching skills, building schools and health posts and

standing up for the rights of the people in order to empower the

people of Cambodia.

Aoral district (Kampong

Speu Province)

Partner Households

Agriculture, Livestock and Farmer Field Schools

EnvironmentCommunity Forestry

Tree Planting and Ecologically Friendly Practices

Income Generation, Village Banking. Small Enterprises and

Self-Employment

Health: Water Supply and Sanitation. Village Health

Networks

HIV and AIDS Awareness, Prevention and Care

Human Rights and Grassroots Advocacy

Disaster Preparedness

Villages produced disaster preparedness plans and begin implementing them. People constructed culverts, treadle pumps, open wells, rice storage banks, canals, spillways, and dam gates to mitigate the effects of long-term droughts and irrigate the crops during short-term droughts.

Education

Scholarships

Non- Formal Education

Lutheran WorldService Head Quarters in theOral District

Second high school in Oral district. Built byImmanuel Primary Schooland St Andrews LutheranCollege.

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