IELB-Bolivia- Diakonia serving women and children in Cochabamba.
Villa Belén is a human settlement in the high hills of Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is home to working families who have come from rural...
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Gustavo Driau
- Jan 10
- 2 min
Peru: a distressing context due pandemic
Peru has the highest number of COVID deaths in proportion to its population. The impact of the pandemic is devastating, with 200,000...
Gustavo Driau
- May 12, 2021
- 2 min
Argentina in an acute poverty crisis
The pandemic has exposed social inequalities worldwide; at the same time, the distress is deeper. In the last three months, the...
Gustavo Driau
- Apr 12, 2021
- 3 min
Hard poverty in Argentina: Companion church and World Hunger response.
On March 31, 2021, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) of Argentina published its annual report on poverty....
Gustavo Driau
- Aug 13, 2020
- 2 min
IELB-Bolivia COVID-19 Hunger Campaign in Tarija
Tarija is a city in southern Bolivia on the border with Argentina. Tarija has 270,000 inhabitants. COVID-19 has had a medium impact in...
Gustavo Driau
- Aug 8, 2020
- 2 min
Hunger alleviation in Cobija, Bolivia. A IELB and Montana Synod shared COVID-19 campaign
Cobija is a city located well to the north in Bolivia, on the border with Brazil. On the Acre River The city has a population of about...
Gustavo Driau
- Aug 3, 2020
- 2 min
"You give them something to eat", Mathew 14:16
The Gospel reading on the first Sunday of August 2020 describes the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves. Jesus feeds a multitude...
Gustavo Driau
- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
Conscious Basket Campaign; FLD-Brazil
Lutheran Foundation of Diaconia (FLD), Mission Council among Indigenous Peoples (COMIN), Center for Support and Promotion of Agroecology...
Gustavo Driau
- Jun 18, 2020
- 3 min
Waste pickers cooperatives receive support in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Brazil has the most confirmed COVID-19 cases in Latin America: 800,000 infections COVID-19 cases and 43,000 deaths as of June 15. Brazil...
Gustavo Driau
- Jun 13, 2020
- 5 min
The pandemic threatens the lives of vulnerable people in Espirito Santo, Brazil
Espirito Santo is one of the twenty-six states of Brazil. Its capital is Vitória. It was founded in 1535 by Portuguese colonists in what...
Gustavo Driau
- Jun 8, 2020
- 4 min
Christ on the Street, in Santiago, Chile
Mrs. Elizabeth Grünholz, President of La Trinidad Congregation wrote this relevant and meaningful letter bout “Christ on the Street” The...
Gustavo Driau
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
During the pandemic times, the poorest struggle the most to keep their families safe
The Lutheran Church of Peru (IL-P) moved quickly to adapt their programs to provide food and hygiene kits to the families and...
Gustavo Driau
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
The pandemic exposes the vulnerability of Venezuelan migrants and refugees
More than five million Venezuelans have fled their country in recent years, driven by a deep political, social, and economic crisis. Of...
Gustavo Driau
- May 25, 2020
- 2 min
Colombia, red flags means hunger
The COVID-19 pandemic finally reached Latin America. More than half of the cases of COVID-19 around the world were detected in Latin...
Gustavo Driau
- May 22, 2020
- 2 min
The southernmost Lutheran church in the world responding to the pandemic
IELCH started in February 2020, a program to support Haitian and Venezuelan migrants in the city of Osorno. The emergence of the COVID-10...
Gustavo Driau
- May 20, 2020
- 2 min
Montana Synod launches a campaign to support companion church in Bolivia
The effects of the pandemic hit Bolivia hard. The country is in total quarantine as a preventive measure against the spread and spread of...
Gustavo Driau
- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
Peace, relief and hope in this time of need, Piura
The Peruvian Evangelical Lutheran Church, IL-P, has contacted a few years ago the Lutheran mission "Christ The King" in the city of...
Gustavo Driau
- May 10, 2020
- 2 min
The church in Chile, adapting programs to emergency
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile develops an emergency migrant accompaniment and assistance project in the city of Osorno, almost...
Gustavo Driau
- May 7, 2020
- 1 min
La Paz, Bolivia; the church responding hunger
In mid-March, Bolivia government initiated a total quarantine as a prevention measure against corona-virus expansion. Then economy is...