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We stand at a critical crossroads. Recent U.S. policy changes have depleted funding sources for vital educational institutions, health care organizations, sustainable livelihoods programs and peace efforts, putting already struggling families and communities at further risk. Join us in prayerfully responding to this moment with compassion, courage and lasting efforts.
We stand at a critical crossroads. Recent U.S. policy changes have depleted funding sources for vital educational institutions, health care organizations, sustainable livelihoods programs and peace efforts, putting already struggling families and communities at further risk. Join us in prayerfully responding to this moment with compassion, courage and lasting efforts.
We have identified five key areas of urgent need for our response efforts.
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Global efforts to eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition are moving in reverse, due to the elimination of many U.S. foreign aid programs. In Africa, we are expanding the Yambasu Agriculture Initiative to help communities in areas directly impacted by the withdrawal of U.S. foreign aid and providing food security grants.
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For decades, Methodists have prioritized educating leaders for the church and the world and provided access to education through scholarships and support of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other Methodist-related institutions. We reaffirm our commitment to breaking cycles of poverty and systemic inequality to work for educational opportunity that empowers the next generation of transformative leaders.
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Cuts to U.S. foreign aid have devastated global health programs, impacting tens of thousands. We are working to fund some of these suspended initiatives—supporting health systems in underserved areas, partnering with African health boards to address preventable diseases, and helping to provide continued access to lifesaving treatments, vaccines and essential healthcare for those in need.
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Forced migration uproots lives as people flee war, poverty and disaster with little but hope. In response, we support legal aid, partner with faith-based immigration advocates and provide essential services—food, shelter and medical care—to refugees and displaced individuals, helping restore dignity and justice to those forced from their homes.
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Many areas of the world are under siege from war and conflict. Places like Gaza, D.R. Congo, Ukraine and Sudan continue to suffer under ongoing warfare. Working through trusted partners, we provide humanitarian aid to impacted communities and bolster peace and justice initiatives.
Your faithfulness makes our work possible. By giving to one of the response areas listed above or to the “Global Ministries – Where Most Needed” (Advance #01138A) at the link directly below, you will help us uphold the gospel message to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry and care for the sick.
April 2025
The Burundi health board has five operating health facilities, but the centers face challenges that make serving community members difficult. A lack of access to safe water sources and education leaves many exposed to waterborne illnesses. This grant aims to support in four key areas – reducing maternal and child mortality rates, increasing access to essential health services, promoting health education and strengthening local health infrastructure. As they prepare to open the doors to two new facilities, this grant will make the interventions even more effective.
June 2025
The recent civil war has left a deadly trail of unexploded weapons, especially in the Tigray region. More than 1,500 civilian causalities have been documented by authorities. This $150,000 grant will equip at-risk populations with information to avoid explosive ordnance-related accidents, report suspicious items and contribute to community safety. More than 190 risk education sessions will be delivered to 4,800 people and 20 community focal points will be created to support ongoing risk education messaging and hazardous item reporting.
June 2025
Palestinians in Gaza face dire circumstances wrought by months of bombardment, near-total displacement, and a widespread shortage of humanitarian aid. These extreme conditions are threatening the lives and well-being of Gaza’s entire population, leaving them with limited access to basic necessities, including clean clothing. This $250,000 grant will provide individual vouchers for 1,450 families for clean clothes and hygiene products, allowing them to choose for themselves what best fits their needs.
March 2025
Seeking asylum or protection in Greece has become increasingly difficult for migrants. Discriminatory EU migration policies, a lack of legal aid, and a country-wide deterrence strategy has left human rights violations in the migration process unchecked. People seeking refuge experience homelessness and violence. Equal Rights Beyond Borders is using this grant to offer legal aid and representation to 400 members of this vulnerable population.
May 2025
Many Haitians living in Port au Prince face severe and consistent challenges. Limited access to healthy food, sanitary products and unsafe living spaces pose threats vulnerable communities. The Methodist Church of Haiti collaborates with the Haitian District of MCCA to use this $200,000 grant towards mobilizing local government agencies to act amid the political upheaval to provide emergency food assistance to 4,000 families.
June 2025
The decline of external aid in Haiti has compounded ongoing gang violence, posing a threat to people there, and leaving them displaced and lacking social services. We are supporting Fondation Voix des Communautés de Base (FVCB), a Haitian NGO that seeks to implement a community water and sanitation training campaign and distribute water treatment kits to combat the aggressive spread of cholera. FVCB is targeting areas where limited access to healthcare and internet/phone/radio coverage leaves people without up-to-date information and resources to slow the spread of disease.
May 2025
Many migrants in Tijuana, Mexico were not seeking asylum when they were first, sometimes forcibly, displaced from their homes in other Latin American countries. Now, they find themselves in poor living conditions, food insecure, disconnected from community and support, and with limited opportunity to earn income. As Mexico produces an abundance of soy, Centro 32 (a Tijuana-based nonprofit), will use this grant to promote the use of soy as a healthy, versatile food alternative and encourage participation in food enterprise. This multi-pronged approach provides migrants a chance to enhance their living conditions and earn a wage.
January 2025
The United Mission to Nepal, a faith-based organization, leads an integrated program in the Tansen United Mission Hospital to address gaps in maternal, newborn, child and mental health. Their services reach adolescents, current and new mothers, and people with disabilities in Tansen, Nepal. The area has a high maternal and child mortality rate with a 90% gap in mental health treatment as well. This grant will offer valuable prenatal, postnatal and obstetric care, support for community systems strengthening and more.
May 2025
Grants totaling more than $500,000 will help generate sustainable conference and community income from the production and sale of rice, sheep, goats and cattle through the Yambasu Agriculture Initiative. The program will also engage youth in production processes such as land clearing, seed raising, transplanting, weeding, fertilizer application, spraying of herbicides, harvesting, loading and offloading to rice mill and packaging.
June 2025
The conflict in Gaza has posed a significant crisis to millions of Palestinians. Blockades, which restrict access to resources and food, have left the people of Gaza in impossible living conditions with little access to food. This $200,000 grant to International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) will help them continue the work they began with UMCOR’s support in December 2024. It will help them provide food, aid, and psychosocial support to families residing in a displacement shelter in a community in central Gaza.
April 2025
In an area of predominantly peasant farmers, this $250,000 grant will utilize a three-phase implementation plan to increase maize production on a 13-acre parcel of church land, provide markets and promote increased value to products from the nearby community, all to help generate sustainable income. New fencing for livestock, a grist mill, a new deep well and marketing strategies will also be implemented.
March 2025
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has devastated the lives of many civilians, leaving them without shelter, food or basic necessities. It is estimated that 60% of Ukraine’s population is in dire need of support. International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) was awarded a $1 million grant to help internally displaced Ukrainians find secure housing, gain access to food and non-food household necessities, and secure opportunities for self-sustainability.
February 2025
The current US administration has made drastic immigration law and policy changes that threaten the lives and welfare of immigrants. Millions lack legal support as they face deportation and experience inhumane living conditions. Federal funding has been terminated for six Immigration Law and Justice Network (ILJN)’s sites across the U.S. that work on behalf of migrants. This >$1 million grant extends support provided from an earlier $425,000 grant to ILJN for removal defense representation. These funds provide vital legal support for vulnerable migrants seeking due process.
March 2025
Significant U.S. policy changes have stripped funding from aid programs in the U.S. and around the world that assist asylum seekers and refugees searching for safety. We awarded a $1 million grant to Church World Service (CWS) to sustain and expand their life-saving justice work on behalf of migrant communities. The funding will help stabilize refugee resettlements, provide immigration legal aid, and support displaced families with food, shelter, and healthcare.
MAY 2025
Malaria is a prominent public health issue in Zimbabwe. Current interventions, like insecticides and treated nets (ITNs), are not foolproof as mosquitoes develop resistance to them. The Zimbabwe Entomological Support Program in Malaria (ZENTO), based at Africa University, supports the national malaria program by providing surveillance data that guides decisions on effective malaria reduction controls. ZENTO was formerly funded by USAID, so this grant will support a funding gap and allow the work to continue and expand across the country.
McDowell County is one of the poorest in the U.S., and the communities of Anawalt, Leckie and Gary are some of the hardest hit by the current six-year water crisis. All have Methodist churches that are part of the Welch Charge.
To ease the burden of residents who have to purchase many gallons of drinking water weekly, the Welch Charge contacted the West Virginia Conference Disaster Response Coordinator, Jim McCune, for help. McCune’s United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) connection put him in touch with Global Ministries’ Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program.
A WASH grant allowed them to obtain a 500-gallon “water buffalo.” The conference disaster response team arranged to fill the portable water buffalo from the Welch water system, the county seat of McDowell, and transport it to Gary, where residents have been supplied with refillable containers. Residents of all three towns can come to get water, and volunteers will also continue deliveries for those who need it. Meanwhile, residents, including church members, continue to advocate state and local officials for a permanent solution to their aging, compromised water infrastructure. Full Story
