Foundation Of Latter Day Saints

LDS Foundation (also known as LDS Charities), established late 1920, is the humanitarian organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It aims to help poor families around the world by enhancing their independence, health and education and to provide assistance in emergency situations caused by wars or natural disasters.

History

• 1920: creation of firm support. The crops are stored in warehouses
• 1932: founding of the first cannery
• 1936: formation of the General Committee of the Church welfare. Creating fourteen regions support to manage the activities of support worldwide.
• 1936: founding the first official center for employment assistance
• 1936-1940: start of production facilities including a sawmill, a tannery, a pasta factory, a salmon cannery, a factory of peanut butter, soap production and bottling of milk
• 1937: Construction in Salt Lake City's first regional warehouse
• 1938: work begins at Welfare Square, to build such a grain elevator and a central warehouse.
• 1938: opening of first store Deseret Industries in Salt Lake City
• 1960: Completion of the new canning factory and milk processing to Welfare Square
• 1970s: the Church is expanding its facilities and support its products in Mexico, England and the Pacific Islands
• 1973: creation of social services of the Church (now known as Family Service of the Church) as a separate official church
• 1976: beginning of the implementation of warehouse of the Church in all regions of Canada and the United States. Announcement of new canneries and plants
• 1982: The President of the United States, Ronald Reagan , visit Welfare Square
• 1985: Church begins to provide drinking water wells in Africa, which marks the beginning of the international development of its humanitarian program
• 1990s: Centre Foundation Humanitarian of the Church for the sorting of clothing and other surplus products, such as medical supplies to be shipped worldwide in response to poverty and disasters
• 2002: first, in LDS Charities, initiatives on wheelchairs, drinking water and neonatal resuscitation
• 2003: LDS Charities joins the international campaign against measles and also the beginning of a global initiative for the treatment of
• 2010: first, in LDS Charities, an initiative to improve food production and nutrition of the poorest countries on earth. Groundbreaking ceremony for a new store Episcopal Central 56 000 m2 in Salt Lake City.

Policy and Operations

The aid of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is given to those who need it, wherever they live and whatever their religion, race, ethnicity or political system.

Funds for operating the Foundation comes from donations, including the gift of fasting members of the Church.

Areas of intervention

Health

The LDS Foundation is involved in three specific areas of health: training in neo natal intensive care and vaccination campaigns ^{, ,} . Missionaries LDS with specific expertise (ophthalmology, cardiology, ..) volunteers conduct humanitarian missions related to their specialty.

Moreover, virtually all Latter-day Saints in Africa have friends or family members who are HIV positive or have AIDS. In response, the Church has developed a program and educational materials to help members of the Church.

Non-governmental humanitarian organization, the Church also responds to requests for partnership in medical projects such as Operation Continuing Promise 2009 providing medical equipment and civilian volunteer personnel aboard hospital ship USNS Comfort for medical care in America, South America Central and West Indies .

Food Bank

More than a hundred stores, private social security system , run almost entirely by volunteers, provide free food to people in need. Farms and farms belonging to the Church supply these warehouses. Trucks engaged in the distribution.

To these are added a warehouse to help service canning food stocks intended for family autonomy up to one year. All these services, as well as the storehouse , intended to increase the autonomy of families of the Church ^{, ,} .

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Wheelchairs

In many developing countries, disabled people must travel on the ground all their lives, which means that adults can not care for themselves or their families, and children , not be able to go to school.

Wheelchairs to persons with disabilities enhance their personal autonomy. Autonomy is a principle taught by the Church ^{, ,} .

Access to safe water

Depending on local needs and demands, the program of the Church provides facilities accessible water to communities in different forms, such as wells, water wells, reservoirs, dams and systems for water purification. ^,

Micro firm

Since 1975, the institute Benson works worldwide to improve the quality of life of impoverished rural families, through food production , nutrition and health. The Benson Institute program helps families in Central America and South America achieve financial independence and support. This program provides training in agriculture and animal husbandry ^{, ,} For thirty-two years, the Benson Institute has a research department of the Brigham Young University. In January 2008 he was included in program support and humanitarian services of the Church. Luis Espinoza, the Benson Institute, said: "Nearly four thousand families of Guatemala , of Bolivia , of Ecuador , from Ghana , from Morocco and reservations of the United States have benefited from the Benson Institute. We are now studying the possibility of us extend to other countries. "

Emergency response

The LDS Foundation, autonomous organization of emergency response ^, , is also a resource for other organizations of humanitarian assistance to bring relief to victims of natural disasters and other health . There is a tradition of collaboration between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Catholic Relief which began in the mid-1980s due to famine in Ethiopia. She has since continued in 165 countries with other humanitarian organizations including the Red Cross , the Red Crescent , the Islamic Relief ^, and the United Nations ^{, , , ,} .

Actions various

In response to specific needs, service projects are implemented jointly by the Relief Societies and local support services, with the support of the Helping Hands and Human Services of the Church. . .

Training

LDS Foundation also manages a program of scholarships and employment services.

The centers of employment services located throughout the world offer opportunities to the unemployed or those who wish to acquire professional skills. The centers are available to everyone, not just members of the Church. The centers are run by volunteers trained and supervised by full-time staff. In these centers, participants can find information on available jobs and receive training, such as the use of computers or how to develop a curriculum vitae.

There are currently 103 service centers for use in the United States and 156 located in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Europe and Latin America. In 2005, the employment centers of the Church have enabled 93,221 people to obtain employment in the United States and Canada, and 128,977 others in other countries.

Honors

In 2005, the American Red Cross honored the contribution of the Church for vaccination against measles in awarding him the American Red Cross Circle of Humanitarians.

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