World Relief (WR)

Mission / Vision
Empowering the Church to serve the most vulnerable
About
World Relief (WR) works in over 13 countries to alleviate poverty and human suffering through community based programs in MCH, HIV/AIDS, child development, microfinance, disaster response, refugee resettlement, and agriculture and food security. WR was founded in 1944 as the relief and development arm of the National Association of Evangelicals; and represents a constituency of over 30m Americans from 45,000 churches and over 50 denominations. WR specializes in developing sustainable solutions for countries emerging from complex humanitarian disasters by building the capacity of local partners and empowering community groups and institutions to achieve sustainable gains.