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In 2008, the LDS Church responded to 124 disasters in 48 countries. [5] [dead link ] Wheelchair Distribution is another church program crucial to helping those in need. By providing wheelchairs to those in need, the church hopes to help people become more self-reliant which is an important tenet of LDS beliefs. [6]
After joining the LDS Church Welfare Department it moved to the LDS Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. The Institute for Self-Reliant Agriculture was organized by a group of former Benson Institute staff applying the same principles.
Gay has been actively involved in poverty relief and humanitarian aid in developing countries, serving as a co-founder (primarily with his wife, Lynette) of the Brigham Young University Center for Economic Self Reliance. [8] Gay has been a major contributor to this center, now named the Melvin J. Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance. [9]
The LDS Church has made similar efforts in the past to provide for the temporal needs of its members. The program is modeled after the Perpetual Emigration Fund, which provided loans to more than 40,000 19th-century Latter-day Saint immigrants looking to settle in the Salt Lake Valley, but lacking the funds to do so.
While administering to the needs of the poor through use of the fast offering funds, each bishop is also counseled to encourage individuals and families to become self-reliant through reducing debt, seeking work opportunities or improved income through education if needed, and paying tithes and offerings to receive temporal blessings from the ...
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Latter-day Saints are constantly encouraged by their leaders to avoid debt and practice self-reliance. [29] It lessens their reliance on outside sources, preparing them for the perilous days they believe to be ahead. The church offers self-reliance courses for their members to teach them how to accomplish this.
In 2018, the LDS Church stated it will continue taking part of national development through its self-reliance program. [12] Between July 2019 and June 2020, partnering with Sightsavers, more than 130,000 people were screened for vision loss, and 924 received sight-restoring surgery.