Provide basic medical supplies, ranging from reading glasses and Emergency Response Equipment to over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, to NSV residents. Non-Alcoholic OTC medications for flu and colds are needed year-round for homeless women who often have poor nutrition and low immunity.

Your gift provides dental care for residents of limited means who require more than the normal coverage provided by NLH.

Provide transportation for a homeless woman served by Bethany Women's Center at N Street Village to get to a medical appointment or job interview.

Buy a homeless man or woman some warm winter wear to provide protection from cold, snowy days on the street.

Provide housekeeping assistance for a resident unable to perform household tasks alone.

Provide a hot breakfast for 10 homeless men, women, or children on a Saturday morning this winter.

Aids is overwhelming the health care system in Namibia. Your gift will provide a month of paaliative care for a patient at home or in a hospice.

Provide seven healthy meals for a low-income residents at the two Fellowship Square Foundation residences.

LCES provides food (Pan y Leche) and shelter to abandoned as well as lunches for homeless people.

Your gift provides ice cream treats for needy children in the D.C. area.

Provide household essentials for a family being resettled here. Kits include items such as toiletries, cleaning tools, kitchen utensils, and table sets.

Free medical clinics are vital for families without health insurance. This gift helps support a Lutheran Volunteer Corps member working in a clinic that provides free medical care to uninsured in Washington, DC.

Seniors face co-payments when they visit a doctor. Your gift provides this unbudgeted expense for low-income seniors.

With your gift, LVC colunteers work with adult and teen survivors of relationship abuse. Prevention, education, and training are vital to eliminate violence against women.

Formerly homeless women need professional clothes and walking shoes to enter or re-enter the workforce.

Provide NSV with twin-sized bed liners and other bedding for its shelter for homeless women.

Camp Safe Haven provides overnight camp for low-income children with HIV/AIDS. Your gift will provide nutritious snacks for campers after they have taken their medication.

Provides a month's support for a Partner Arms resident to participate in THC's new Women's Wellness Program of fitness, health, nutritional activities, workshops, credit counseling, and financial planning.

Luthern hostels in Namibia care for 1,600 abandoned or orphaned HIV/AIDS children. The children sleep 2 in a bunk, and the hostels urgently need water-proof mattresses.

Perscriptions are becoming more and more expensive. Your gift will help meet a needy senior's co-payments.

Books in the home are essential for children to become good readers. SE Min has a basket of books for kids and shelves of new and used books for adults.

Help support LVC volunteers who become powerful role models to low-income youth at risk for gang involvement, drug use, teen pregnancy, and other problems.

It is not enough just to come to GED class every day. Students need to be equipped with a calculator, dictionary, three-ring binder, and subject workbooks to do assignments, and be prepared for the GED test.

The Lutheran University of El Salvador offers full and half tuition scholarships to needy students who study theology, education, social work, and ecological agriculture.

Your gift allows a pastor in Slovakiato attend a 2-3 day theological conference. Attendees receive further theological training and discuss practical congregrational leadership issues, while interacting with fellow pastors.

A life-altering event usually triggers an adoptive person's search for birth relatives. Such a search is expensive. Your gift funds fees for hospital records, birth records, court adoption files, filing a court petition, and placing newspaper announcements.

Books are expensive in Namibia. Help the ELCN/ELCRN Seminary to give 2 books to each graduating seminarian-a Bible commentary and a counseling guide.

In Slovakia, chaplians are much like our seminary interns, studying for the ministry under a pastor's supervision. This gift supports attendance to a two-day conference.

Camp Mar-Lu Ridge is refurbishing its Conference Center and other buildings. The Conference Center doors in particular need to be replaced.

Help El Salvadorian pastors and other rostered church leaders attend training, workshops, seminars, and forums in the 6 regions of the church.

Provide public transportation for a GED or job-readiness student to get to class. Help students help themselves toward a better future.

Identifying and applying for government benefits and community resources are difficult, especially for the mentally ill. LVC helps those struggling with mental illness to get the care and benefits they deserve.

Provide a game or toy for a homeless child who would not otherwise unwrap a present on Christmas Day.

A hair care appointment gives quite a boost to the spirit. This gift will allow the National Lutheran Home to treat a resident with limited income to this special luxury.

A month's supply of children's books for the Partner Arms Reading Club. Supply four (4) paperback books for a beginning or advanced reader.

Help a child who was a victim of domestic violence and lives in Lutheran Social Services' transitional housing program to participate in monthly activities such as zoo and museum trips or visits from reptile lady, puppet maker, clown or magician.

Help make summer a rewarding time for a formerly homeless child. GSH will evaluate a child's needs and interests. Your gift will provide sports equipment or at least 3 music or art lessons or tutoring.

The trips and special events at the National Lutheran Home are a great source of joy for the residents. NLH does not charge for these activities, enabling residents at all income levels to participate.

Help provide a week of summer camp for a needy child who will experience God's love through caring staff members and gain self-confidence and self-esteem.