Mormonnewsroom.org pulls stories from the international Newsroom websites to show what leaders and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world are doing to better the communities in which they live.
Swaziland: Missionaries Brighten Up African Orphanage
Mormon missionaries serving in Swaziland in south Africa put a fresh coat of paint on a local orphanage.
The Lobamba Neighborhood Care Point is one of several facilities caring for more than 70,000 children who have been orphaned from HIV/AIDS. Neighborhood Care Points have been established in Swaziland where children may come together and receive care and support, a meal for the day and some form of education. The Neighborhood Care Points are operated and funded by volunteers.
Check out the South Africa Mormon Newsroom website to see how the missionaries helped and the enthusiastic response they were given by the children.
Pacific: Latter-day Saints Assist in Vanuatu
Heavy rainfall for three weeks in April destroyed residents’ crops in the remote Vanuatu village of Tisman (about 1,000 miles east of northern Australia). “Everything I have tried to harvest is rotten,” one villager said.
Responding to the need for assistance, Mormon Helping Hands volunteers and others carried food to the people, traversing a river to do it.
Read more about how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is helping the Vanuatu villagers on the Pacific Mormon Newsroom website. The Daily Post covered the story.
Canada: Mormon Helping Hands Sandbag River
in Saskatchewan
Record winter snowfalls in Saskatchewan are raising the risk of flooding in the town of Radisson as well as other communities.
Members and missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are helping to sandbag potential flood areas to protect homes, businesses and other vital community facilities from rising flood waters.
Go to the Canada Mormon Newsroom website to read more about how local Church leaders are working with community leaders to help plan for additional assistance including cleanup after the flood danger has passed.