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Part of harvest activities at the LDS Medford Pear Orchard, USA. Emergency Response is the part of the LDS Church's humanitarian efforts of which most people are aware. Funds and supplies in this area are used to help victims of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, tornadoes, and hurricanes, as well as other disasters such as wars or political unrest.
Welfare Square was created in 1938, [2] under the direction of the Church's General Welfare Committee, which itself had been formed just two years earlier. [3] Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States was experiencing the Great Depression Welfare Square became the flagship of the Church's Welfare Program.
The current name, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – Philanthropies, was changed in 2019 as part of a focus by the LDS Church to move away from the monikers 'LDS' and 'Mormon'. [6] [7] N. Eldon Tanner initially created a task force to address philanthropic issues in the LDS Church and named Donald T. Nelson as the first director.
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.
The LDS Church also has a strong welfare and humanitarian missionary program. These humanitarian missionaries typically serve in impoverished areas of the world and do not actively proselytize. Humanitarian missionaries comply with any local laws regarding teaching or displaying religious symbols, including the identifying name tags.
Helping Hands (formerly known as Mormon Helping Hands) is a community service volunteer program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [1] The logos were used in 1992 in South Florida after Hurricane Andrew ravaged the city of Homestead and other parts of Miami-Dade County, Florida. [2]
Pages in category "Organizational subdivisions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The LDS Church reported 32 members in Montenegro for year-end 2022. [19] The Podgorica Branch is the only congregation meeting in Montenegro. A family history center is also located in the Podgorica meetinghouse. [20] A meetinghouse of the LDS Church in Novi Sad, Serbia