LWSIT

Capacity Building Training on

Communication at LWSIT National office
Cabbage cultivation

in STEER Project, Bankura unit
Forest Protection Committee

meeting at Mayurbhanj unit
Goat Rearing support to women headed

families for IG at Balangir unit
Paddy Thresher Machines

distributed in Bankura Unit

Lutheran World Service India (LWSI) was initiated as a Country Program of Lutheran World Federation/Department for World Service (LWF/DWS) Geneva in 1974 to extend relief support to the refugees of the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971 in collaboration with the Swedish Mission, as the Cooch Behar Refugee Service.

On September 4, 2008 the organization was registered as Lutheran World Service India Trust (LWSIT). Today, we respond to the causes and consequences of human suffering and poverty through justice and dignity for all by empowering the last, the least and the lost.

WHAT WE DO

Sustainable Livelihood

Community Resilience

Education

Health

Peace

Gender

A LITTLE ABOUT US

Lutheran World Service India Trust (LWSIT) is an Indian NGO engaged in empowering the marginalized and the excluded communities such as Dalits, Tribes/Adivasis and women in rural and urban communities of Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. We also respond to natural and human-made disasters accross the country as Pan India presence.

We have a deep-rooted presence in eastern India with our National Office in Kolkata, West Bengal since 1974.

We carry out our work using the Gender Inclusive Rights-Based Approach (GIRBA) and the Integrated Approach in fulfilling our Vision of creating Just societies ensuring fullness of life in harmony with creation.

DETAILS

LWSIT WORKS WITH

States

Districts

Project Units

Communities

Households

CASE STORIES

Gender Empowerment Project, Kolkata Unit: Action by Women Leadership Towards Resolving Workplace Violence by Mrs Kaushalya Jana

Story of a Girl pursuing her Higher Studies with a purpose: CAP-R Project, Assam Unit

Girls are Happy after receiving the book support: STEER CAP-R Project, Bankura Unit

Santal Women supports family by Vending vegetables: CAP-R Project, Assam Unit

Safety Life Jacket a preparedness measure of safety life:
Transboundary Flood Resilience (TFR) Project in South Asia, Assam, India

Livelihood Security for the Tribal and Dalit Families in Odisha:
Basanti Shows the Way to survive with Support from The Hans Foundation

CCI project: Best practices

Shunning behind the stereotypical mindset: GEP, Bhubaneswar

OUR PARTNERS

Our fingerprints on the lives we touch never fade