| Church's Wheelchair Initiative Turns a New Corner | |
SALT LAKE CITY -- Chris Jardine gingerly reached out with his fingerless hands to touch the new wheelchair he was just given. He lifted his body into the new chair, but after a moment he pulled himself out and went back into his old wheelchair.
“I want to wait and get up Christmas morning and have this be my Christmas gift,” Jardine said in his 10-by-10 room located in an old hospital in Mahaica, Guyana. Jardine was in dire need of a new wheelchair. His old one had loose and broken wheels, making transportation especially dangerous and difficult. The new chair would be more comfortable and safe for him as he dodged the holes and rocks in the streets of his neighborhood.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is providing four wheelchair models and job opportunities for wheelchair recipients around the world to address their unique needs. The religious faith of the recipients is not a factor.
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| Church Aid Program Saves Over 400,000 Lives | |
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - One of the central pillars of the humanitarian aid program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--training medical staff and birth attendants how to resuscitate oxygen-deprived babies at birth--has the potential to save the lives of more than 400,000 babies in developing countries.
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| Church responding to multiple emergencies
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SALT LAKE CITY - In addition to the response in Myanmar, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is also responding at this time to emergency situations in several other world locations.
Make a donation to support the general Emergency Response fund.
Donate to the general Emergency Response Fund.
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| Saying Goodbye to President Hinckley | |
SALT LAKE CITY, 2 February 2008 - Funeral services for President Gordon B. Hinckley, leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were held Saturday, February 2, in the Conference Center in Salt Lake City.
Use these links to make a memorial gift, in lieu of flowers, to the Perpetual Education Fund, Humanitarian Aid, or General Missionary Fund.
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| 500 Desks Placed in Guatemala Schools | |
In many Guatemalan villages, school children sit on slab benches and do their schoolwork on long, narrow pieces of wood. With only two percent of the national Guatemalan budget available for education, this sight is a normal occurrence. In several areas, Humanitarian Services of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has provided funds to purchase school desks where they are needed most.
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| Mormon Volunteers Distribute 10,000 Cleaning Kits to Flood Victims | |
OLYMPIA, Washington - Thousands of volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints put on waterproof boots, heavy gloves and yellow “Mormon Helpings Hands” shirts this weekend to clean up homes and farms in Lewis County devastated by floods.
Trucks left Salt Lake City last week carrying over 10,000 cleaning kits to be used in the weekend-long relief efforts. The kits, packed in a reusable bucket, contain rubber gloves, brushes, sponges, rags, trash bags and cleansers.
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| Church Responds Immediately to Peru Quake | |
The Church is working closely with government leaders and other emergency response organizations to identify and meet urgent needs in Peru after a devastating 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck just off the coast on Wednesday evening, August 15, 2007.
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| Thousands of Mormon Volunteers Reach Out to the Community | |
Now that more fires are contained and many of the evacuees of the California wildfires are able to return to their neighborhoods, thousands of volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are reaching out to those who have lost their homes or sustained property damage.
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| Members Respond to Extreme Flooding in England | |
| Torrential rains caused massive flooding throughout parts of central and western England leaving more than 15,000 homes in Gloucestershire without power and up to 350,000 people without running water as severe flooding forced the closure of a water treatment plant on July 23, 2007.
While flood warnings continue to be issued in the Midlands, Oxfordshire, and Bedfordshire areas, Church leaders near Sheffield have been working with civil authorities in the recent weeks to distribute cleaning and other emergency relief supplies to those affected. Local leaders, in an effort to determine if Church assistance is needed, are assessing member and community needs.
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