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2004 News Releases

December 31, 2004

• WAVE OF GIVING GATHERS MOMENTUM
  LWR pledges an additional $500,000 – millions more to come.

December 31, 2004

• Lutheran World Relief receives $3 million pledge from Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for South Asia tsunami relief efforts
  $1 million immediate gift and additional $2 million challenge grant provide momentum to LWR’s Wave of Giving™ campaign
  
  

People walk past ruins left after devastation caused by tidal waves at Pathong beach, near Phuket, December 27, 2004. REUTERS/Luis Enrique Ascui, courtesy www.alertnet.org

December 29, 2004

• Lutheran World Relief Launches WAVE OF GIVING™
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

December 27, 2004

• 15 Hours After Deadly Tsunamis, Lutheran World Relief ALREADY Providing Relief Aid With Partner in India

December 21, 2004

• Philippine Aftermath: the need for necessities

December 1, 2004

• HIV/AIDS Day a Day Like Any Other at Lutheran World Relief

November 18, 2004

• Small Helpings of Hope Where the Need is Great

• LWR Partners with Luther College

• LWR Persists with Relief in Haiti

November 10, 2004

• Announcing The Lutheran World Relief Community Quilt:
  A Creative Way To Give Gifts. A Creative Way To Support LWR.

October 14 , 2004

• Faith Group Leaders Ask Bush, Kerry for Just New Colombia Policy Focused on Peace and Security
  
  
• Minnesota Lutherans Welcome Coffee Farmer Representative

Material resources make their way to children in Peru - A country with bitter cold, high winds, heavy snow, and torrential rain at lower altitudes.

October 4 , 2004

• Peru Receives LWR Material Resources
  
  
• LWR Has Voice in Stuttgart, Germany
  
  

October 1 , 2004

• Our Fair Trade Cup Runneth Over:
  Lutherans Rise To The 90-Ton Challenge
  
  
• Other Fair Trade News From Lutheran World Relief
  

September 28, 2004

• Harvest Coffee in Nicaragua With an LWR Study Visit
  
  
• “Hunger No More: Faces Behind the Facts”
  
  

September 10, 2004

• One more ton to go: an update on the LWR Coffee Project 90-Ton Challenge
  
  
• LWR Media Director moves on
  
  

August 16, 2004

• Peru Devastated by Winter Weather
  
  
• Despite the Rain, LWR Reaches Out to 500,000 People in Darfur, Sudan
  
  

"We ran away after my husband was killed by the Janjaweed," says Fatima Khalid. Over the last year, conlfict has left many villages in Darfur deserted. Now, heavy rains are threatening to cut off whole regions from emergency relief. Photo: Hege Opseth, NCA/ACT/Caritas

August 5, 2004

• Lutheran World Relief Accepts $500,000 Award From The Pierre And Pamela Omidyar Fund: Money To Aid Darfur, Sudan
  

 

July 30, 2004

• Floods Inundate Parts of South Asia; LWR Joins Relief Efforts
  
  
• As Darfur Crisis Builds Lutheran World Relief Helping Refugees With the Basics
  
  
  

Thanks for helping us meet the 90-Ton Challenge!

July 23, 2004

• Record Flooding Hits Eastern India; LWR Supporting Early, Rapid Response

• Successful LWR Project in Uganda Receives McKnight Foundation Award

• Hot Weather No Match for Fair Trade, at Least in Lake Wobegon
  
  
  

 

June 30, 2004:

• “All Our Children”: A Different Presence in Iraq
  
  
• In Darfur Camps: Nightmares Still Real for Sudanese Women
  
  
  
  

Abdullah is one of the refugees who is helping put up tents in the refugee camps in Chad. Photo: Hege Opseth, NCA/ACT International

June 23 , 2004:

• Urgent Relief Arrives in Darfur, Sudan, but Region’s Needs are “Overwhelming”
  
  
• ‘Java’ Justice on TV in California
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

 

In the Haitian town of Fond Verettes, floodwaters rose from a previously dry riverbed and swept through the streets. REUTERS/Daniel Morel, courtesy of www.alertnet.org

May 28, 2004:

• Emergency Aid Going to Flood Survivors in Haiti, More Help Needed
  
  
• Sudan’s Latest Refugees to Begin Receiving Aid
  
  
  
  
  

 

May 21, 2004:

• Humanitarian Award Goes to Colombian Advocate and LWR Partner
  
  
• No Need for More Money, Uganda Partner Tells LWR
  
  
• Traveler Brings Fair Trade Action Plan to Minnesota College
  

 

May 5, 2004:

• Faith Powers fair Trade's Continuing Growth
  
  
• Beat The Heat: Do Justice to Cocoa Farmers Now
  
  
• Get New Edition of Action-Oriented LWR Brochure: Be Involved
  
  
• Lutheran World Relief Co-Hosts an Inclusive Forum on Colombia's Divisive Conflict

 

	Rwanda photos >>. Photo: Thomas Lohnes, DNK/LWB

 

April 6, 2004:

• Rwanda Back to Life: Ten Years After the Genocide

• Led by Coffee, 2003 a Banner Year for Faith-Powered Fair Trade

 

 

March 25, 2004:

	Liberia photos >>.

• Power, Water to be Back on Tap at War-Ravaged Liberian Hospital

• Can a Few Dollars Nudge the AIDS Mountain in East Africa?

• Spring Flings for Fair Trade: Easter Eggs, Catalogues, Halfway to the Brim, Traveling Coffee Hour

• LWR Urges U.S. Administration to Support, Not Abandon, Life-Saving International Landmine Ban

• LWR President Named to Maryland List of Top Women

March 19, 2004:

• Baltimore-Based International Non-Profit Head Earns “Top 100” Women’s Award

March 18, 2004:

• As Street Violence Flares in Iraq, Lutheran World Relief Aids Street Children
  
  
• Ford Foundation Supports Lutheran World Relief Peace Project for Colombia

February 27, 2004:

• Medical Aid Goes to Haiti

• Afro-Colombians in the Spotlight: LWR Helps Policymakers Meet

• Stand With Africa Offers Visit With Stellar School Kids

In the incident, a bomb detonated by remote control injured two Iraqi staff and disabled their DCA vehicle in the city of Basra. Photo: Callie Long/ACT International .

February 12, 2004:

• Attack Stops Bomb Removal In Iraq, But People Projects Go On
  
  
• Exotic Birds, Electricity on Saturdays, a Sense of Peace: Fair Trade Souvenirs From Central America
  
  
• Fair Trade Challenge On-Track Toward 90-Ton Goal
  
  
• Harvests Rot While Farmers Eat Food Aid:
  In the Shadow of the West Bank's New Wall
  

January 30, 2004:

• LWR Group Making Fair Trade Pilgrimage in Nicaragua: See Diary On-Line
  
  
• Iranian Red Crescent Re-Stocks Emergency Supplies With LWR Quilts
  
  
• High Goals, Solid Results Drive Lutheran World Relief Advocacy Workshops
  
  
• LWR Wins Media Monitoring Award Good for 24/7…366
  

January 6, 2004:

• LWR Supporting Survivors in Iran, Requesting Donations
  
  
• College Group Now in Coffee Country, Nicaragua: Their Diary is On-Line

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