January Master

Study/Learn

1 - Spend at least 30 minutes on the website exploring and reading about LDS Charities.  Since 1985, LDS Charities has provided assistance to millions of people in 185 countries.  (There are 196 countries total in the world.) You will be amazed at what the church is doing.  I was!

2 - Research one of the other top humanitarian groups in the world.  You can research any one you would like.  Here are some if you don't know of any:

• Action Against Hunger (AAH)
• CARE
• Caritas Internationalis
• Catholic Relief Services (CRS - USCC)
• Doctors Without Borders 
• Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN)
• Food For The Hungry International (FHI)
• Hunger Plus, Inc.
• Interaction
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• International Rescue Committee (IRC)
  
• Lutheran World Federation
• Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)
• Mercy Corps (MC)
• Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
• Oxfam
• Refugees International
• Relief International
• Save the Children
• The Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 
• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• US Committee for Refugees (USCR)
• World Vision International

Know/Understand

Write a one page paper on the charity that you researched.  Please remember to include the following:

• What do they do?
• Who do they serve?
• How they get their funding?
• Would you donate to this charity?  Why or why not?

Email it to Sis. Cloward and I will put it on the blog since we won't have time in class to share.  

Become/Serve

Ponder on the following scripture and journal what it  means to you.