2021
Church Provides Help and Relief
November 2021

Church Provides Help and Relief

In times of crisis and wherever in the world there is need for assistance, the Church continues to do all it can to offer help and relief, often partnering with other charitable organizations and nongovernmental agencies. During the past six months, Latter-day Saint Charities, the humanitarian arm of the Church, has provided support in order to:

  • Enable a nonprofit organization to install running water in homes in remote areas of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, USA.

  • Distribute approximately 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine to at-risk populations in 121 countries and territories.

  • Provide relief supplies to Ethiopian refugees living in Sudan and to severely flooded villages in Sudan. Support also helped farmers recover after the flood and provide food for themselves and others and helped families to become self-sustaining by developing their own businesses.

  • Help 9,000 refugees and immigrants through nearly 190 charitable organizations in the United States, offering a series of grants totaling U.S. $5 million

  • Continue training and to provide computers for blind and visually impaired individuals in French Polynesia.

  • Coordinate with other religious and community organizations to help immigrant families in a transfer center in Houston, Texas, USA.

  • Facilitate 20 pandemic relief projects in Paraguay.

  • Bring relief to Haiti following a devastating earthquake, with Church buildings used as shelters and the Church providing food, water, and other supplies.

  • Respond to crucial needs of Afghan refugees living in Qatar, Europe, and the United States.

The Church also offered assistance in the Caribbean Islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines during volcanic activity in the area; organized volunteers to assist with cleanup and recovery when a hurricane hit the Gulf Coast and Louisiana, USA; and provided assistance when flooding left a trail of destruction in parts of Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.