International Disaster Response Projects
World Renew’s International Disaster Response team provides support to many communities worldwide that are affected by disasters by working in cooperation with local non-governmental organizations and churches. Their expertise and knowledge are invaluable to the work of World Renew and ensure that the assistance is appropriate to the local context, and helps to foster long- term impacts.
The list below of current disaster response projects show how your faithful prayers and generous gifts change people’s lives.
Asia
Bangladesh
Project: Improving the Food Security of Vulnerable Host Communities in Teknaf
Partner: SATHI Relief Committee
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $813,070.38 CAD
Participants: 16,550
Start date: 01-Jan-21
End date: 31-Dec-23
Project: Addressing Vulnerability and Resilience of the Host Community from Sabrang Union affected by the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis
Partner: SATHI Relief Committee
Total Commit: $522,698.40 CAD
Participants: 2,957
Start date: 01-Oct-21
End date: 30-Sep-24
Project: Rapid Response for the Mocha Cyclone affected Community at Teknaf
Partner: SATHI Relief Committee
Total Commit: $13,595.92 CAD
Participants: 859
Start date: 06-Jun-23
End date: 31-Jul-23
Project: Niripad Agriculture and Livelihood Project
Partner: Participatory Action for Rural Innovation
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $186,420.30 CAD
Participants: 13,529
Start date: 01-Oct-23
End date: 30-Sep-26
Project: Improving Food Security of Vulnerable Host Community Impacted by the Rohingya Refugee Influx in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar
Partner: SATHI Relief Committee
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $223,073.28 CAD
Participants: 13,529
Start date: 01-Jan-24
End date: 31-Dec-26
India
Project: Emergency Response for Displaced Communities
Partner: North East India Committee on Relief & Development
Total Commit: $53,040.00 CAD
Participants: 2,039
Start date: 01-Jul-23
End date: 31-Aug-23
Project: North India Flood – Small Rapid Response
Partner: Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief
Total Commit: $19,951.33 CAD
Start date: 24-Jul-23
End date: 30-Aug-23
Project: Three Year Agriculture and Livelihoods Project
Partner: Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief/North East India Committee on Relief & Development
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $45,000.00 CAD
Start date: 01-Jan-23
End date: 31-Dec-23
Project: Pre-project Situation Assessment Phase
Partner: North East India Committee on Relief & Development
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $23,120.00 CAD
Start date: 01-Jun-23
End date: 31-Aug-23
Middle East
Lebanon
Project: Food Vouchers for Vulnerable Families in Lebanon
Partner: Middle East Revive and Thrive
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $1,037,760.24 CAD
Participants: 4,975
Start Date: 01-Jul-2023
End Date: 31-Mar-2024
Project: Milk, Diapers and Feminine Pads for Vulnerable Families in Lebanon
Partner: Middle East Revive and Thrive
Total Commit: $105,731.01 CAD
Participants: 8,500
Start Date: 01-Jul-2023
End Date: 31-Mar-2024
Project: Winter Assistance for Vulnerable Families in Lebanon
Partner: Middle East Revive and Thrive
Total Commit: $50,000.00 CAD
Start Date: 01-Nov-2023
End Date: 31-Mar-2024
Project: Contingency and Emergency Response Proposal
Partner: Middle East Revive and Thrive
Total Commit: $19,950.00 CAD
Participants: 4,000
Start Date: 11-Oct-2023
End Date: 30-Jun-2024
Project: Education and Child Protection in Lebanon
Partner: Middle East Revive and Thrive
Participants: 1,520
Start Date: 01-Sep-2023
End Date: 31-Aug-2024
Syria
Project: Food Baskets for Internally Displaced and Vulnerable People in Syria
Partner: Middle East Revive and Thrive
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $1,313,000.00 CAD
Participants: 17,147
Start date: 01-Jul-23
End date: 31-Mar-24
Project: 2023 Syria Earthquake Emergency Response
Partner: Middle East Revive and Thrive
Total Commit: $1,385,074.80 CAD
Participants: 28,000
Start date: 07-Feb-23
End date: 31-Mar-25
Project: Aleppo and Lattakia Earthquake Food Assistance (ALFA)
Partner: Adventist Development and Relief Agency
Total Commit: $15,432.00 CAD
Start date: 15-Apr-23
End date: 15-Dec-23
Project: Education and Child Protection in Syria
Partner: Middle East Revive and Thrive
Total Commit: $150,000.00 CAD
Participants: 800
Start date: 01-Jul-23
End date: 30-Jun-24
Latin America
Haiti
Project: Targeted Malnutrition Treatment Program for Children in Hinche, St. Marc and Boucan-Carré
Partner: Partners in Health – Haiti
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $663,057.00CAD
Start Date: 01-Jul-2023
End Date: 31-Mar-2026
Honduras
Project: Food Assistance for Food Insecure households in the department of Intibucá, Honduras
Partner: Comisión de Acción Social Menonita
Total Commit: $487,944.88 CAD
Participants: 2,495
Start Date: 13-Nov-2023
End Date: 30-May-2024
Nicaragua
Project: Recovery, WASH, Mental and Spiritual Support, Hurricane Julia
Partner: Fundacion San Lucas
Total Commit: $82,200.00 CAD
Participants: 1,745
Start Date: 27-Feb-2023
End Date: 31-Aug-2023
Southern Africa
Madagascar
Project: Humanitarian Response in Ambovombe Androy
Partner: Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $993,056.00 CAD
Participants: 11,600
Start Date: 01-Sep-2023
End Date: 31-Feb-2024
Project: Humanitarian Early Recovery & Development (HERD) in Amboasary-Atsimo District of Anosy Region – Phase 2
Partner: Church of Jesus Christ of Madagascar
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $1,881,483.00 CAD
Participants: 9,787
Start Date: 01-Jan-2022
End Date: 31-Dec-2024
Malawi
Project: Cyclone Freddy Response
Partner: Churches Action in Relief and Development
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $50,000.00 CAD
Start Date: 01-Jul-2023
End Date: 31-Oct-2023
Project: Cyclone Freddy Food Assistance Response
Partner: Eagles Relief and Development Programme
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $789,475.00 CAD
Participants: 2,790
Start Date: 01-Sep-2023
End Date: 31-Oct-2024
Project: Cyclone Freddy Food Assistance Response
Partner: Word Alive Ministries International
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $529,614.00 CAD
Participants: 4,521
Start Date: 01-Sep-2023
End Date: 30-Apr-2024
Zambia
Project: Community Transformation through Improved Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihoods
Partner: United Church of Zambia
Total Commit: $642,184.18 CAD
Participants: 8,705
Start Date: 01-Jan-2022
End Date: 31-Dec-2026
Project: Cholera Response
Partner: United Church of Zambia
Total Commit: $20,080.34 CAD
Participants: 5,000
Start Date: 01-Feb-2024
End Date: 31-Mar-2024
East Africa
Ethiopia
Project: Brightening the Future of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project – Phase V
Partner: Food for the Hungry – Ethiopia
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $874,202.00 CAD
Participants: 4,870
Start Date: 01-Oct-2020
End Date: 30-Sep-2023
Kenya
Project: Climate Support Project
Partner: Anglican Development Services – Pwani
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $98,282.04 CAD
Start Date: 01-Jul-2023
End Date: 31-Mar-2026
South Sudan
Project: Food Assistance in South Sudan
Partner: ZOA – Dorcas South Sudan
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $1,786,760.29 CAD
Participants: 14,575
Start Date: 01-Aug-2023
End Date: 31-Jan-2024
Tanzania
Project: Integrated Food Security and Livelihood Project in Geita Region
Partner: African Inland Church Tanzania – Diocese of Geita
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $546,324.00 CAD
Participants: 7,099
Start Date: 21-Apr-2021
End Date: 20-Jul-2026
Project: Integrated Food Security and Livelihood Project in Mara Region
Partner: African Inland Church Tanzania – Diocese of Mara and Ukerewe
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $653,701.00 CAD
Participants: 13,876
Start Date: 21-Apr-2021
End Date: 20-Jul-2026
Uganda
Project: Improved Food Security in Padwot Sub County, Kucwiny
Partner: Church of Uganda – Nebbi Diocese
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $312,072.00 CAD
Participants: 2,123
Start Date: 01-Oct-2022
End Date: 30-Sep-2027
Project: Karamoja Food Assistance Program
Partner: Pentecostal Assemblies of God
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $200,000.00 CAD
Start Date: 01-Jan-2023
End Date: 31-Dec-2023
Project: Karamoja Food Assistance Program
Partner: Pentecostal Assemblies of God
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $150,000.00 CAD
Start Date: 01-Jul-2023
End Date: 31-Mar-2024
West Africa
Nigeria
Project: Relief Cash and Livelihoods Recovery
Partner: ZOA Nigeria
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $2,037,408.00 CAD
Participants: 5,636
Start Date: 01-Apr-2021
End Date: 31-Dec-2023
Project: Cash Assistance for Food and Support for Early Recovery of Livelihoods for IDPs and Host Families
Partner: ZOA Nigeria
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $2,913,258.00 CAD
Participants: 12,598
Start Date: 01-Jan-2023
End Date: 31-Dec-2025
Additional Projects
Afghanistan
Project: Improving food security through provision of life-saving cash assistance for food in selected districts
Total Commit: $30,000.00 CAD
Start Date: 01-Oct-2023
End Date: 31-Mar-2024
Colombia
Project: Food E-voucher Assistance for Food Insecure Venezuelan Migrants and Host Communities in the Border Departments of La Guajira and Arauca, Colombia Phase 5
Partner: ZOA Colombia
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $1,026,205.00 CAD
Participants: 4,000
Start Date: 22-May-2023
End Date: 07-Jan-2024
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Project: Neglected Crises in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Partner: World Relief – Congo
Total Commit: $12,900 CAD
Start Date: 01-Aug-2022
End Date: 31-Jul-2023
Pakistan
Project: Government Affairs Canada Funded Food Assistance Project
Partner: Community World Service Asia
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Total Commit: $6,731.00 CAD
Start date: 3-Mar-23
End date: 03-Sep-23
Palestine
Project: Gaza Response
Partner: International Health Partners
Total Commit: $48,330.00 CAD
Start Date: 23-Oct-2023
End Date: 23-Oct-2024
Project: Emergency Food Response
Partner: Catholic Relief Services – Ethiopia
Funding Partner: Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Start Date: 15-Dec-2023
End Date: 14-Dec-2024
Ukraine
Project: Ukraine: Emergency Response to Conflict
Total Commit: $128,000.00 CAD
Start Date: 01-Mar-2022
End Date: 29-Feb-2024
Project: Year 2 in Ukraine: Renewal, Healing and Livelihoods
Total Commit: $208,500.00 CAD
Start Date: 01-May-2023
End Date: 30-Apr-2024
Project: Emergency Shelter and Cash Assistance for War-Affected Populations
Total Commit: $202,500.00 CAD
Participants: 1,236
Start Date: 15-Feb-2023
End Date: 15-Oct-2023
Project: Employment and rent support for conflict affected populations
Total Commit: $399,000.00 CAD
Participants: 405
Start Date: 01-Jan-2024
End Date: 31-Oct-2024
