Disaster Relief

Items to aid flood victims in Tanzania are organized in the Masai District by volunteers from the local United Methodist church. With financial support from the United Methodist Committee on Relief, the church helped 250 families affected by the disaster. Photo courtesy of the North Katanga Episcopal Area disaster management office.

Church brings vital aid to flood victims in Tanzania

The United Methodist Church — with support from UMCOR — came to the aid of hundreds of families affected by devastating floods in Tanzania.

Disaster Relief

John Lusulu, financial assistant with the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s disaster management office in eastern Congo, helps a young woman carry food during a distribution operation for people displaced by war in Goma, Congo. Each household received one month’s food aid and essential non-food items. Photo by Chadrack Tambwe Londe, UM News.

Church helps thousands of displaced families in Congo

Financial support from UMCOR helped to provide food, necessities and feminine hygiene items to more than 12,500 people displaced by war.

Disaster Relief

Children share food distributed by The United Methodist Church in Andranokaky in southern Madagascar. Members of Ambodifasika United Methodist Church on the island distributed the supplies to people affected by climate change. Photo by Justin Rakotoarimanana.

Church addresses food insecurity in Madagascar

With help from UMCOR, members of Ambodifasika United Methodist Church distributed food and other support to people affected by climate change.

Disaster Relief

Mushaishi Madzakate, a farmworker at Mutambara Mission, irrigates a bean field at the United Methodist mission farm in Mutambara, Zimbabwe. Farms with irrigation systems have fared better during the El Niño-induced drought in the country, which has left millions facing hunger and starvation. Photo by Kudzai Chingwe, UM News.

Drought puts lives, church farms at risk in Zimbabwe

El Niño-induced drought has left millions facing hunger. The United Methodist Church’s efforts to boost food security in the region also suffered a huge blow, with church mission farms seeing major crop losses.

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