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Explore how your gifts and our global partnerships connect local churches and communities in mission to alleviate human suffering around the world.

As violence surges and health and safety nets deteriorate across Haiti, UMCOR grants concentrate on those most at risk.

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As the 2022 hurricane season begins to churn, UMCOR continues work with partners in the Bahamas to aid the recovery of families affected by Hurricane Dorian in 2019, marking its three-year anniversary.
After 37 people, including some United Methodists, were killed during an attack, UMCOR awarded a grant to provide food and hygiene kits and address other immediate needs of people affected by the civil unrest.
Nearly $1 million of essential medical supplies and equipment sent to Ukraine thanks to a joint effort by UMCOR, the Arlene Campbell Humanitarian Foundation and Ohio Health.
United Methodists are finding various ways to raise funds for UMCOR in support of those displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
An eight-question guide to the history of Methodism in Ukraine, how UMCOR is responding and the best ways for you to help now.
UMCOR partners with International Blue Crescent to provide humanitarian relief to displaced people living for eight months or more in informal camps, turned back from the Tajikistan border by the Taliban.
United Methodist congregations in Ukraine respond to the immediate needs of people in their local areas and help displaced people trying to reach safety. United Methodists of the Central and Southern European Central Conference welcome and provide for refugees entering Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary.
Global Ministries joins many Christian organizations worldwide in deploring the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and ardently prays for diplomacy and peace.

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