Welfare assistance since 1985
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Welfare assistance since 1985
Since 1985 the Church has sent humanitarian aid around the world, including:
Total Monetary Assistance – $1,115,900,000
Countries served – 167
Food – 61,308 tons
Medical supplies – 12,829 tons
Clothing – 84,681 tons
Hygiene, newborn, and school kits – 8,600,000
Major responses to emergencies:
2010 - Haiti earthquake
2009 – Samoan/Tonga earthquake, Philippines Typhoon
2008 – China earthquake, Ethiopia famine
2007 – Peru earthquake, California wildfires
2006 – Indonesia earthquake, Lebanon war relief
2005 – U.S. hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Pakistan earthquake
2004 – 2007 – South Asia tsunami
2004 – Florida and Caribbean hurricanes
2003 – Africa floods and famine, Iraq and Liberia war relief
2002 – Europe and Chile flooding
2001 – El Salvador and Peru earthquakes, Afghanistan war relief
2000 – Mozambique and Brazil flooding, Belize hurricane
1999 – Kosovo war relief
1998 – Central America hurricane
1997 – U.S. Midwest flooding, North Korea crop failure
1996 – Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia war relief
1995 – Japan earthquake
1994 – Rwanda war relief
