From helping after wildfires in Southern California to giving medical supplies in Sierra Leone, the Church and its members cared for those in need in 2025
Clockwise from top left: Students of Gavuone Primary School in Gavuone, Papua New Guinea, charge their Solar Buddy lights by holding the solar cells toward the sun on April 15, 2025; Melissa Turner, blood manufacturing tech lead, processes blood at the American Red Cross Blood Donation Center and Lab in Murray, Utah; CARE responds to the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar that struck Friday, March 28, 2025, with the help of donations from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Young Women General President Emily Belle Freeman, left, prepares bags of meals with Brielle Briggs, 12, center, and Arianna Nopper, 11, right, during a service project organized by the Church and Silicon Slopes to help assemble 1 million meals for the Utah Food Bank, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. Clockwise from top left: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Kristin Murphy, Deseret News; Brice Tucker, Deseret News; Provided by CARE
Immediate emergency supplies were given to those in need through local bishops’ storehouses and the Bishops’ Central Storehouse in Salt Lake City.
The Church also contributed $1.2 million to help nonprofit organizations respond to needs in the impacted communities.
These organizations are the American Red Cross, International Medical Corps, Project HOPE and Save the Children all of which are providing things like shelter, food, clothing, hygiene kits and cleaning supplies, explained a news release posted on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
“My heart is full of gratitude for the humanitarian organizations the Church is working shoulder to shoulder with to assist those tragically affected by the fires,” said Elder Mark A. Bragg, General Authority Seventy and then president of the Church’s North America West Area.
