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During the Great Depression the LDS Church organized a welfare program, now administered the church's Welfare Services department, to help provide for the needs of its members. LDS Humanitarian Services was created to coordinate these efforts in partnership with government, and other nonprofit agencies around the world.
Latter-day Saint Charities, the humanitarian arm of the church, has provided Hospitals and clinics, and disaster relief among other supplies and services. [10] [11] [12] In 2021, Latter-day Saint Charities provided a $20 million donation to UNICEF to provide vaccines to Belize and other countries. [13]
Philanthropies, formerly LDS Philanthropies, is a department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and is responsible for facilitating donations to humanitarian and educational initiatives. [1] The department works under the direction of the church's Presiding Bishop. [2]
The Church has conducted 161 humanitarian projects since 1985 that have included activities such as clean water initiatives, community projects, emergency response, refugee response, and wheelchair donations. Most recent projects have focused on refugees. Large amounts of humanitarian aid were donated from 1991 to 1992 due to war in the region. [9]
The church and its members have provided several humanitarian service aid and projects. Among them, Members cleansed, beautified, and provided other assistance to two Tanzanian orphanages in 1998 and 2000. [9] [10] The church delivered two shipping containers of food and medical supplies in 2001. [11]
The church officially established the program in 1998 [3] in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chile to identify service being done by members of the LDS Church. That same year it was implemented on a large scale in Brazil as part of a country-wide day of service organized by the church.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) has been present in Albania since at least the early 1990s. In 1993, there were approximately 100 members in the country. In 2022, there were 3,314 members in 14 congregations.
Donations from fast offerings are not used for the same purposes as those monies given through tithes.Specifically, fast offerings are used to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and other necessities for those who are in need, fulfilling the meaning conveyed in Isaiah 58:6–11, with attendant blessings to the giver and the receiver.