1. Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and Love your neighbour as yourself. Luke 10:27

2. Australian Lutheran World Service is the overseas aid and resettlement agency of the Lutheran Church of Australia.

3. Through Gods love, ALWS helps poor and oppressed people: Get back on their feet again; Find fresh hope; Discover dignity and respect in their lives.

4. ALWS – Reaching out in love for justice For overseas aid, ALWS works mainly in eight countries –Sudan –Cambodia –Nepal –Mozambique –Papua New Guinea –Kenya –Indonesia –Burundi

5. ALWS – Reaching out in love for justice ALWS sometimes helps refugees in crisis – short term assistance for those in desperate need in some of the poorest countries of the world. ALWS more often helps in the long-term sustainable development of rural communities in poor countries. Sustainable development is a process that empowers people in poor communities to ultimately help themselves.

6. ALWS – Reaching out in love for justice Primarily, ALWS programs focus on empowerment and development through: –Food security (teaching how to grow a variety of food crops all year round) –Water availability (the building of water posts, wells, or dams) –Income generation (finding ways for the very poor to make a living) –Advocacy (standing up for what is right and just)

7. ALWS – Reaching out in love for justice ALWS work with local people, using local resources wherever possible. This helps: –To teach local people –To give opportunities to people –To improve the economy of the region –Keep the culture strong

8. Cambodia Cambodia is a country that was destroyed in may ways over thirty years ago during the Khmer Rouge rule. They are still trying to get back on their feet and combat desperate poverty. ALWS work with some of the poorest rural communities in long- term development. They are trying to get food and water into communities, and make options available for employment. They are teaching skills, building schools and health posts and standing up for the rights of the people in order to empower the people of Cambodia.

10. Aoral district (Kampong Speu Province)

12. Partner Households

13. Agriculture, Livestock and Farmer Field Schools

14. Environment Community Forestry

15. Tree Planting and Ecologically Friendly Practices

16. Income Generation, Village Banking. Small Enterprises and Self-Employment

17. Health: Water Supply and Sanitation. Village Health Networks

18. HIV and AIDS Awareness, Prevention and Care

19. Human Rights and Grassroots Advocacy

20. Disaster Preparedness Villages produced disaster preparedness plans and begin implementing them. People constructed culverts, treadle pumps, open wells, rice storage banks, canals, spillways, and dam gates to mitigate the effects of long-term droughts and irrigate the crops during short-term droughts.

21. Education

22. Scholarships

24. Non- Formal Education

25. Lutheran World Service Head Quarters in the Oral District Second high school in Oral district. Built by Immanuel Primary School and St Andrews Lutheran College.

27. Agun dra Thank you very much